Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Anand Tamariya]

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Here is my next iteration on basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs for sheet
music. Now you can print sheet music for your favorite song in Emacs.

   -

   Run M-x ps-print-buffer-with-faces to send output to printer.
   -

   Run C-u M-x ps-print-buffer-with-faces to send output to file (PS
   format).

*Code:* https://gitlab.com/atamariya/emacs/tree/dev

*Music Symbol reference:* http://www.smufl.org/files/smufl-0.9.pdf

*Screenshots:*
https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2021/07/sheet-music-in-gnu-emacs.html

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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Richard Stallman]

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Is this code designed to be added to Emacs, and then it would simply work
with no need for the user to know other commands?

What is the input file format?

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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Anand Tamariya]

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>
> Is this code designed to be added to Emacs, and then it would simply work
> with no need for the user to know other commands?
>
Yes. The only requirement is to use Truetype fonts. Since OS, Emacs and
ghostscript treat Truetype fonts uniformly, no other configuration is
required.

What is the input file format?
>
The input file format is irrelevant.

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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > What is the input file format?

  > The input file format is irrelevant.

I suspect there is some misunderstanding here.
Are you saying that your package can understand all possible file formats?


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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Anand Tamariya]

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>
>   > What is the input file format?
>
>   > The input file format is irrelevant.
>
> I suspect there is some misunderstanding here.
> Are you saying that your package can understand all possible file formats
>
My code only deals with converting what is shown on screen to postscript
for printer. Hence, if Emacs can display it, it will be printed as such.

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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > My code only deals with converting what is shown on screen to postscript
  > for printer. Hence, if Emacs can display it, it will be printed as such.

I understand now what job your package does.  It's a useful addition.

How do you display sheet music in Emacs?

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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > My code only deals with converting what is shown on screen to postscript
  > for printer. Hence, if Emacs can display it, it will be printed as such.

I understand now what job your package does.  It's a useful addition.

How do you display sheet music in Emacs?

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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > My code only deals with converting what is shown on screen to postscript
  > for printer. Hence, if Emacs can display it, it will be printed as such.

I understand now what job your package does.  It's a useful addition.

How do you display sheet music in Emacs?

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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Anand Tamariya]

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>
> How do you display sheet music in Emacs?
>
Instructions here
https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2021/07/sheet-music-in-gnu-emacs.html

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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2021/07/sheet-music-in-gnu-emacs.html

That is interesting.

Are there programs to convert other musical notation files
into this Unicode format?  Can it handle rests, dots, ties,
bar lines, and so on?

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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Anand Tamariya]

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  > https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2021/07/sheet-music-in-gnu-emacs.html
>
> That is interesting.
>
> Are there programs to convert other musical notation files
> into this Unicode format?

I'm not aware of any such program. But with an active W3C Music Notation
Community Group <https://www.w3.org/community/music-notation/> , I expect
to see more of this in the near future.

  Can it handle rests, dots, ties,
> bar lines, and so on?
>
 Complete symbol reference is available here.
http://www.smufl.org/files/smufl-0.9.pdf

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RE: [External] : Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Drew Adams]

Is David Kastrup's LilyPond work with Emacs perhaps
relevant to this discussion?

http://lilypond.org/

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/usage/text-editor-support.html

  Emacs has a ‘lilypond-mode’, which provides keyword
  autocompletion, indentation, LilyPond specific
  parenthesis matching and syntax coloring, handy
  compile short-cuts and reading LilyPond manuals
  using Info. If ‘lilypond-mode’ is not installed on
  your platform, see below.

  An Emacs mode for entering music and running LilyPond
  is contained in the source archive in the ‘elisp’
  directory. Do make install to install it to elispdir.
  file ‘lilypond-init.el’ should be placed to
  load-path‘/site-start.d/’ or appended to your
  ‘~/.emacs’ or ‘~/.emacs.el’.

(I know nothing about it, and I'm not a musician.  I just
recall seeing messages in emacs-devel about it over the years.)

Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Richard Stallman]

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We'd like to consider merging your changes into Emacs.  Would you be
willing to send them in the form of a patch that we would install?
That would mean, a context diff file showing the changes,
plus an explanation to use as a log entry.

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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Anand Tamariya]

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> We'd like to consider merging your changes into Emacs.  Would you be
> willing to send them in the form of a patch that we would install?
> That would mean, a context diff file showing the changes,
> plus an explanation to use as a log entry.
>
This will land up in Emacs eventually. I've already signed the license
agreement.

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Re: Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Sheet music)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > This will land up in Emacs eventually. I've already signed the license
  > agreement.

Thank you.

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