Hi Torsten, Thanks for sharing this, it looks great, short clear and to the point.
Shall I add it to the contrib/ directory? Best -- Eric Torsten Anders <torsten.and...@beds.ac.uk> writes: > Dear Babel developers, > > Inspired by the newly available Lilypond, I hacked up a first version > of language support for Fomus > (http://fomus.sourceforge.net/). Briefly, Fomus is a music notation > system that translates a relatively simple domain specific music > language into multiple output formats, including Lilypond and MusicXML > (the latter is an open format supported by many commercial music > notation systems such as Finale and Sibelius). In a nutshell, Fomus > can simplify the generation of complex scores, because it can add > various score information automatically. Anyway, please find my first > attempt of a Fomus integration attached. > > This works already fine for standard code blocks such as the following. Note > that the result of this is a Lilypond file. > > #+begin_src fomus :file test1.ly > time 0 dur 2 pitch 60; > time 2 dur 1 pitch 62; > time 3 dur 1 pitch 63; > time 4 dur 4 pitch 65; > #+end_src > > Of course, because this is a quick hack, various improvements can be > made. For example, it might be a good idea to allow for something like > :file test.pdf, where the resulting Lilypond call would see file.ly, > but the automatically inserted link in the org buffer would be the > resulting file.pdf. > > Comments are welcome. > > Best wishes, > Torsten > > -- > Dr Torsten Anders > Course Leader, Music Technology > University of Bedfordshire > Park Square, Room A315 > http://strasheela.sourceforge.net > http://www.torsten-anders.de > > > > > > > -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
