[Orgmode] Re: arranging and publishing music with Org-mode and lilypond

[Shelagh Manton]

Christian Moe <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've only used Lilypond for play, but I'd appreciate a Babel module
> for Lilypond, if someone writes one.
>
> My use case, for which I think Org is perfect, is maintaining simple
> song collections: short scores interspersed with lyrics, printable as
> a booklet. It is doable now but could clearly be done better with
> Babel.
>
> So if someone's thinking about ob-lilypond, integration with
> lilypond-book as a post-processing step would be useful.
>
> Yours,
> Christian

I have had an ob-LilyPond on my list of things to do for quite a while
now. If I have the next few days off, I will seriously look into it. 
But post integration with LilyPond-book is probably more than I would be
able to handle in the short term. 

Cheers
Shelagh
>
>
> On 10/4/10 4:31 AM, John Hendy wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:24 PM, T.F. Torrey <address@hidden
>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>
>>      > From: Stefan Vollmar <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
>>      > Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:26:39 +0200
>>      > Subject: [Orgmode] arranging and publishing music with Org-mode
>>     and lilypond
>>      >
>>      > Dear all,
>>      >
>>      > I believe that many members of this list with an interest in
>>     music (notation/composition) might find the http://lilypond.org
>>     project "addictive" (in the nicest possible manner): the concept
>>     is rather similar to writing TeX, there is very good Emacs support
>>     (if you know where to look), it is all OpenSource, there is
>>     extensive documentation (in LaTeX format with embedded lilypond
>>     snippets), the print quality is excellent.
>>      >
>>      > I mention this because while arranging some piece of music
>>     recently, I noticed that Org-mode might be helpful in this context
>>     - it is probably already possible by tweaking org-babel a bit:
>>     lilypond encourages the user to structure music in a way that
>>     lends itself rather naturally to processing with Org-mode - you
>>     can assign a theme, a few bar with notes or even whole voices to
>>     variables and use them repeatedly. And imagine using Org-mode's
>>     outline capabilities to structure a piece of music. Exporting an
>>     org-file with lilypond-snippets in it to PDF or HTML might also be
>>     an interesting option.
>>      >
>>      > I have not yet put any effort into it and just wanted to find
>>     out if anybody apart from me finds the combination of Org-mode and
>>     lilypond (potentially) exciting.
>>
>>     I think this is very exciting.
>
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