From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs and lilypond Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 14:29:01 +0000 Message-ID: <87vb4ybbv6.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <87bn6v43et.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87k2lg51uv.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457360977 24967 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2016 14:29:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:29:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Thorsten Jolitz Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 07 15:29:29 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1acwA1-00024l-60 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 15:29:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acwA0-0002eJ-C0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 09:29:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47455) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acw9i-0002d5-Pr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 09:29:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acw9e-0007aq-H1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 09:29:06 -0500 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([31.216.48.48]:51460) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acw9e-0007am-9Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 09:29:02 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=C0K99hWSx4VmOt4/ACpaTU8grKlRw6NHJCdJdwc9Dwc=; b=AXPQ1k8sewlcwha++1HFLNOoOf IaxK7NN7USij6b/jHCz5sUJFANVRA4BRf1bWpY/BMByJsvnKTZtl0kKdKFZUQp7fulWmQYCeNDeuc ENxToIRQWR/gjdleJjRHoXt04lPnr7x58X9w7il5VEpnwY3tlMaYc3rG8XFiyAswaAMMawYcWrtuM nBQ3fdaFFlvRlNfrvb2NPQIh/XAcdRfDtAvFJsT0QZsSt0cTV91KocqCR3spnt1sHpUWb8PAdgMeM 0Trpug+zx+FW9avE5znuwWdi21GRponVjF8r9NhKLV1XuwoDN5K4WFFrQ3+qXdgrJ7pz/tMjSm/60 tdSN9Zwg==; Original-Received: from janus-nat-128-240-225-60.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.225.60]:35371 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1acw9d-003H3O-N1; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 14:29:01 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87k2lg51uv.fsf@gmail.com> (Thorsten Jolitz's message of "Sat, 5 Mar 2016 17:24:56 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 31.216.48.48 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109498 Archived-At: Thorsten Jolitz 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