Amico, Thanks for pointing out CarMusTy. It seems to be in the earlier stages of development. Interestingly it uses Latex (xetex) under the hood. I was looking for either Latex or Lily solution. Will keep a note of it and try it out when a working version is ready.
My turn - there's another Carnatic Music Typesetter, an online app here: http://arunk.freepgs.com/cmnt/newsong.html and this page describes the tool and there are some examples too. http://arunk.freepgs.com/wordpress/cm-typesetter/about/ This is also an interesting tool, where you type in your notes and lyrics in English/phonetic, and it can generate notation in Devanagiri/Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. One minor drawback in this (and similar) Indian notation tools is, the output is not flexible or customizable. They generate notation like fixed tables, 4 notes - 4 notes - 4 notes.... 'phrasing' doesn't exist. Lilypond excels in spacing and phrasing. With Latex, it should be possible with some tweaking. Thanks for sharing. Ananth On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Amico De Bellezza < nighthawkmail...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I was also looking for similar editors for indian music notation for quite > some and just couple of days back came across this > http://gpalem.web.officelive.com/CarMusTy.html > > Looks promising, but seems the work in still going on. May be you can take > a look at it and see if it comes close. Here is what it says on that site: > > CarMusTy is an all in one environment for typesetting Carnatic music Books. > It is a one stop solution to edit Carnatic music notation files, generate > MIDI files and typeset portable document format books. The advantages of > using CarMusTy for typesetting the Carnatic music, as opposed to using any > other editing application (such as Word or other music typesetting systems) > are: > > - CarMusTy allows *Phonetic > Transliteration*<http://phtranslator.sourceforge.net/>of notation and lyrics. > That is, you can enter Carnatic music notation and > lyrics once in phonetic english and let CarMuty transliterate the content > into multiple languages, such as Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi etc on the > fly. > - CarMusTy is compatible with > *CFugue*<http://gpalem.web.officelive.com/CFugue.html>Carnatic music > programming library, which means that the notation you enter > in CarMusTy is actually capable of producing music!! Yes, CarMusTy can > generate MIDI files from your song notation automatically. > - Numerous settings are provided in the application to customize the > appearance of song notation and lyrics. CarMusTy generates PDF Books > customized to your preferences and the inbuilt PDF preview window helps you > see the output on the fly. > - Songs in CarMusTy environment support various attributes, such as > Raga, Tala, Author, Composer etc., which will be automatically indexed by > CarMusTy and inserted in the generated PDF book. > - CarMusTy supports Templates to ease the work of creating new books > based on existing documents, and it ships with numerous Default templates > that help new beginners jump start with working on it with ease. > > Note that CarMusTy is a typesetting environment, and not a word > processing application. While word processors, such as Microsoft Word, > OpenOffice Word etc., help you create and edit documents, typesetting > applications, such as CarMusTy, help you publish Books. The difference is > the typography finesse. For a book to have the professional level of > acceptance, its typography must meet the accepted publishing standards. > CarMusTy fully supports the Metric, US and British publishing standards and > is built on top of the powerful TEX layout system. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >
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