Re: Emacs and lilypond

[Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>]

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
> I once used Lilypond with Org Babel to create something like an "Org-mode
> Bandbook", that is an Org document that contains all of the songs a band
> plays, as well as contact info of the band members, and the bands tour
> and rehearsal schedule:
>
> ,----
> | https://github.com/tj64/org-bandbook 
> `----
>
> I based it on the great Openbook project from Mark Veltzer:
>
> ,----
> | https://github.com/veltzer/openbook
> `----
>
> There are (syntax) transformation functions for both directions - from
> Openbook files to Org-mode files and vice versa. And I made use of
> Lilyponds (musical) transformation facilities, making it easy to print
> such a bandbook for different instrumentalists (C-Version, Bb-Version,
> Eb-Version etc.).
>
> IIRC I left it in a working state, but the results had a very plain
> latex textbook look.
> If I have a practical use case for it, I will continue to develop it and
> look for a nice latex style, in the meantime I would be happy if others
> become interested in the project and contribute.
>
> The nice thing is that all the hard work is done by others:
>  - the Openbook project converts sheet music to lilypond
>  - Org-mode replaces Lilypond Book and allows to create very
>    sophisticated documents around the scores
>
> I would say that building on the current state of the project, creating
> a really beautiful Bandbook (for C and transposing instruments) that is
> easy to modify and maintain, would require mostly good Org-mode and
> Latex skills, not so much Elisp or Lilypond skills (as long as the songs
> are from Openbook or so.)
>
> But with regards to the original question: using Org Babel, its just
> about editing plain Lilypond code in source blocks, and I did not get so
> involved that I noticed any shortcomnings of lilypond-mode.el. All the
> compilation stuff was handled nicely by ob-lilypond in the background.


That looks like a fairly nice option, thanks for the info.

Phil