[O] org-babel, lilypond, & tables
I'm wondering if someone could tell me if this idea is impossible. I'm trying to find a way to leverage org-tables in a document containing lilypond markup for a piano part such that both staves occupy the same line, visually (instead of the lefthand notes occupying the top of the doc and the righthand notes occupying the bottom). Right now I'm accomplishing this with a vertical split in the buffer, which works, but is clunky. I'd love to do something like: left hand | right hand | measure --+-+-- a16 b c d e f g a | a8 e4~ | %m1 4 a8 g| 4| %m2 et cetera. This is easy enough to lay out in org mode, and it would look terrific, but I can't imagine how to accomplish it such that the lilypond markup would respond correctly to ly-tangle without bracketing every cell in #+BEGIN_SRC LILYPOND #END_SRC (and even then, I doubt what would happen.) Maybe the answer is "You just have to get used to the way things are," which is fine--even that would at least get me thinking about other problems. Thank you! Steven Arntson
Re: [O] org-babel, lilypond, & tables
Perhaps you are doing cutting edge stuff that no one has even considered before, which is great. Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM, Sigma Xi gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” --Thompson On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Steven Arntson wrote: > I'm wondering if someone could tell me if this idea is impossible. I'm > trying to find a way to leverage org-tables in a document containing > lilypond markup for a piano part such that both staves occupy the same > line, visually (instead of the lefthand notes occupying the top of the > doc and the righthand notes occupying the bottom). Right now I'm > accomplishing this with a vertical split in the buffer, which works, but > is clunky. I'd love to do something like: > > left hand | right hand | measure > --+-+-- > a16 b c d e f g a | a8 e4~ | %m1 > 4 a8 g| 4| %m2 > > et cetera. This is easy enough to lay out in org mode, and it would look > terrific, but I can't imagine how to accomplish it such that the > lilypond markup would respond correctly to ly-tangle without bracketing > every cell in #+BEGIN_SRC LILYPOND #END_SRC (and even then, I doubt what > would happen.) > > Maybe the answer is "You just have to get used to the way things are," > which is fine--even that would at least get me thinking about other > problems. > > Thank you! > Steven Arntson > >
Re: [O] org-babel, lilypond, & tables
Steven Arntson stevenarntson.com> writes: > I'm wondering if someone could tell me if this idea is impossible. I'm > trying to find a way to leverage org-tables in a document containing > lilypond markup for a piano part such that both staves occupy the same > line, visually (instead of the lefthand notes occupying the top of the > doc and the righthand notes occupying the bottom). Right now I'm > accomplishing this with a vertical split in the buffer, which works, but > is clunky. I'm quite sure you'll have to write custom emacs-lisp for this. I'd suggest not using tables, though. It looks fine when you have only notes, but as soon as you need an override (and, in piano music, you *will*, sooner or later), the table will become very wide and you'll lose the advantage of seeing both columns at once. I'd probably use plain lists, one item per staff. You could even nest lists for passages of temporary polyphony: ** Bar 1 - ... right hand notes... - Poly - ... left hand voice 1 notes... - ... left hand voice 2 notes... It'll take some extra lisp code to parse all this, but it could work. I have a sneaky feeling, though, that more complex notation requirements may become inconvenient. hjh
