Am 06.11.2013 07:05, schrieb Joshua Nichols:
I guess in the end I didn't understand anything at all, and my hard
head saw LaTeX and didn't see "preprocessed with lilypond-book."
Maybe this is a good opportunity to hook in.
If there is anybody out there experienced with LaTeX and Lua I'd be glad
he/she would get in touch with me.
I have written a LaTeX package 'musicexamples'
(http://www.openlilylib.org/musicexamples) which is currently useful but
not spectacularly unique. I'm using it for managing music examples in my
LaTeX documents.
It's on my agenda however to extend this package through Lua (although
the new functionality would of course be restricted to LuaLaTeX) in
order to accept embedded LilyPond code like lilypond-book does.
It's not the explicit intention to make a verbatim copy of
lilypond-book, but moving the functionality _inside_ the LaTeX
compilation process would offer at least the following fixes for
problems that have so far led me not to use lilypond-book:
- You can compile the document at any time directly, no need for
preprocessing and intermediate .tex files
- You don't have to chose between cluttering your working directory with
intermediate files
or causing relative-path problems by using the -out option
- You have reliable access to the _currently effective_ text width, e.g.
in multicolumn context
I know that even without any prior Lua experience I would be able to
dive into that and somehow manage to come up with something. But
collaborating with someone who already knows the field would
dramatically raise the probability this will become reality ...
Best
Urs
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