>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jan> On Monday, 6 September 1999, Joshua Thielen writes:
>> I'm interested in possibly using lilypond to create plugins for
>> Netscape and MSIE to view NIFF files. Has anyone discussed
>> creating a free viewer for NIFF or SMDL? This would be a big step
>> forward towards the
Jan> Uhm, that certainly is a new point of view. I'm afraid you're
Jan> underestimating the proportions of the problem that a music
Jan> typesetter has to solve, a bit. One of the biggest problems we
Jan> face is the definition of the musical input format. We would
Jan> like to define the 'meaning' of the music unambiguously and in
Jan> a sensible way; that is, not as a series of typesetting
Jan> commands.
I'm very glad to here that. But then, why do we have such commands as
\include "paper16.ly"
or
\paper { linewidth = 14.0 \cm; }
???
To me, these are typesetting commands and should be
eliminated. Stylesheets should be used to achieve the finetuning of
typesetted output.
--
Laurent Martelli
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