Re: Sponsoring lilypond development Was Re: Score parts: instrument and duration

[Pedro Kröger]

Trevor Baca <address@hidden> writes:

> AFAIK, key-value pairs didn't exist in the late 70s when Leland
> started development (or maybe they did; anyway, they didn't make it
> into the program).

I believe they did exist (*cough* lisp *cough* :-))

> To use SCORE you literally have to memorize that p2 means "staff
> number", p3 means "horizontal position", p4 means "start vertical
> position", p5 might mean "glyph size as a percentage of default", etc.

this is both a reminiscence of the tabular nature of old FORTRAN and the
Music V parameters field idea. In fact, at first SCORE was a
preprocessor for Music V (or whatever Music N it was at the time) and
was developed as a notation program latter. You can still find these
parameters fields (i.e. p1, p2, ... pn) in csound and score-like
preprocessors for csound like score11.

Pedro