Re: Other programming languages & LilyPond

[Urs Liska]

Answer him that

A)
Lilypond does have its builtin extension language, and that this is so intertwined with LilyPond's internal working that it allows to do _very_ much, surely more and more fundamental than any "scripting engine".

B)
As LP input files are plain you can use _any_ programming language to modify, analyze or even generate LilyPond input files.

Depending on your relation to the asker you might admit that A) actually _does_ have some learning curve.

Urs

SoundsFromSound <address@hidden> schrieb:

A friend of mine, who is a long time Finale user, asked me today:

"Does LilyPond allow you to use programming languages like Lua for scripting
or functions to expand its capabilities? That's one of the things I love
about Finale nowadays....."

I was not sure how to answer. Does LilyPond have any use (need?) to work w/
Lua or other languages besides Scheme? Would that add anything to the
package or just be superfluous?

Ben



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