Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-12 Thread Jeff Epstein
I am writing a very-simplified LilyPond parser, just to analyze the notes, chords and rests/silences within a particular { }-block of LY code. I want to completely ignore all non-note (and non-chords and non-rest/silence) elements. I am trying to understand all of the (at least most common) possib

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/12/10 7:11 AM, "Jeff Epstein" wrote: > I am writing a very-simplified LilyPond parser, just to analyze the notes, > chords and rests/silences within a particular { }-block of LY code. I want > to completely ignore all non-note (and non-chords and non-rest/silence) > elements. > > I am tryi

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-13 Thread David Santamauro
Hi Carl, very interesting information... On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:12:40 -0700 Carl Sorensen wrote: > > An easier approach might be to write an engraver Pardon my ignorance, but is this something like what articulate.ly[1] does or are you referring to some deeper, possible c++ level? E.g., \sc

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/13/10 5:50 AM, "David Santamauro" wrote: > > > Hi Carl, > > very interesting information... > > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:12:40 -0700 > Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> >> An easier approach might be to write an engraver > > Pardon my ignorance, but is this something like what articulate.l

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-13 Thread David Santamauro
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:32:06 -0700 Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> > >> An easier approach might be to write an engraver > > > > Pardon my ignorance, but is this something like what > > articulate.ly[1] does or are you referring to some deeper, possible > > c++ level? E.g., > > > > \score { > > \

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-13 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:17 AM, David Santamauro wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:32:06 -0700 Carl Sorensen wrote: >> >> The second state is in the form of scheme music expressions.  The job >> of the parser is to convert lilypond music expressions into scheme >> music expressions.  Most user-d

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-13 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Samstag, 13. November 2010, um 13:50:24 schrieb David Santamauro: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:12:40 -0700 > Carl Sorensen wrote: > > An easier approach might be to write an engraver [...] > Is there already a 'test' engraver that simply outputs to stdout as a > simple prototype ... more-or-less a

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-13 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/13/10 9:17 AM, "David Santamauro" wrote: > > I want to offer to do it, but I have some intense studying to do. Is > this the correct list to ask questions about this. I'm not in > inexperienced developer, just a novice with the internals of > lilypond. I just don't want to seem burdensome.

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-14 Thread Wols Lists
On 13/11/10 16:17, David Santamauro wrote: > I want to offer to do it, but I have some intense studying to do. Is > this the correct list to ask questions about this. I'm not in > inexperienced developer, just a novice with the internals of > lilypond. I just don't want to seem burdensome. > The ot

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-15 Thread David Santamauro
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:29:07 + Wols Lists wrote: > On 13/11/10 16:17, David Santamauro wrote: > > I want to offer to do it, but I have some intense studying to do. Is > > this the correct list to ask questions about this. I'm not in > > inexperienced developer, just a novice with the interna

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-15 Thread Jan Warchoł
Hi, 2010/11/15 David Santamauro > > I can't seem to find that [frogs] list. I'm here: > http://lilypond.org/contact.html It is mentioned at the beginning of the contributor's guide, and quite frequently in LilyPond Report. However, i argee that it could be in some more visible place. Here's the

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Jan Warchoł wrote: > It is mentioned at the beginning of the contributor's guide, and quite > frequently in LilyPond Report. However, i argee that it could be in > some more visible place. What, like http://lilypond.org/help-us.html ? :-) Cheers, Valentin

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-15 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/15/10 2:32 AM, "David Santamauro" wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:29:07 + > Wols Lists wrote: > >> On 13/11/10 16:17, David Santamauro wrote: >>> I want to offer to do it, but I have some intense studying to do. Is >>> this the correct list to ask questions about this. I'm no

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:29:37AM -0700, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > On 11/15/10 2:32 AM, "David Santamauro" wrote: > > > I can't seem to find that list. I'm here: > > http://lilypond.org/contact.html > > Well, it appears that we have a documentation problem. > > The list is fr...@lilynet.net. >

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-15 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Graham Percival wrote: > James: could you look into this, and make a suggestion for the > docs or a patch?  (if you propose a minor change, just write up a > patch; if you propose a more significant change, it might be good > to discuss it before you go to the bot

Re: Universe of syntax possibilities, ONLY to skip over non-notes/chords

2010-11-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:58:33AM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Graham Percival > wrote: > > James: could you look into this, and make a suggestion for the > > docs or a patch?  (if you propose a minor change, just write up a > > patch; if you propose a more