Re: spreadsheet and lilypond

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 23:03:52 -0300
Pedro Kroger <address@hidden> wrote:
> Has anybody used a spreadsheet to typeset music with lily? Although I
> really enjoy editors like emacs it seems to me that writing music in
> "rows" (for staff lines) and "columns" (for measures) may a good
> bet. The user could, for instance, select an entire measure of an
> orchestral score (a column) or only the flute part (a row) and render
> it through lilypond. Although the later is possible with emacs I can't
> see how the former could be possible.

Have you looked at Sly?  IIRC, it uses columns for staff lines and rows
for measures, but it's the same kind of idea.

> An additional feature is that the measures numbers match the column
> numbers making very easy to find where is the lily code for the
> measure 53 of the trombone, for example (ok, we can use source
> specials with emacs, I know :))

Many Mutopia scores use one bar per line, and every give lines they have
a bar number comment.  ie: % bar 20

Cheers,
- Graham