Re: Jianpu Notation

[James Harkins]

Super-User <david290 <at> qq.com> writes:

> I am a Java developer and music amateur from China who is familiar
> with both 5-staff notation and Jianpu (aka numberic) notation used for
> all pitched Chinese instruments. I have seen post discussed about
> displaying Jianpu notation in Lilypond years ago, and would like to
> help developing implementation of it. Recently, I have tried to
> implement a small subset of Jianpu on Lilypond, in ugly programming
> style, as attached in this email. I would like to hear more from the
> Lilypond community about how to implement the Jianpu support better.

Hi,

Nice to see work resuming on this :)

Are you aware of Silas Brown's jianpu-ly python script?

http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ssb22/mwrhome/jianpu-ly.html

It defines a syntax for (what appears to be) a fairly large subset of
jianpu notation. The python script produces (ugly) LilyPond code to
render the jianpu. That code can be pasted into bigger scores, where it
prints nicely alongside Western notation.

One thing that it doesn't handle -- and this was a pretty serious
limitation when I tried to use it in a project -- is grace notes. If
you started with his work and added grace notes, you would be very far
along the way.

I'm working in Guangzhou, by the way.

hjh