Re: Immediate Need For Midi Output

[Rune Zedeler]

Hi Jared!
I am surprised that the manual has no information written specificly for 
blind people. I am pretty sure that we have had other blind users (for 
the obvious reasons that you specify). Not able to find it in the 
archives though.
If you would help writing a section for blind people I think that we 
would all appreciate it.
I could also imagine that lilypond outputs way too much information when 
processing files. For seeing people it is easy to quickly sort out the 
relevant information, but I could imagine that having to hear the whole 
thing via a speak-processor would be rather annoying. Perhaps we should 
add a "silent"-option to lilypond making it only output the really 
important messages.

I have attached a small example that produces midi output.
I have tried to only use constructs that you will be able to hear in the 
midi-file. Also I have not used \transpose or \relative to make the file 
as easy as possible to navigate for a blind person.

I think that the manual sections on entering music should be relatively 
straight forwards. I hope you can use this small example as a template 
to experiment with.
Please ask again if you have any questions.

Regards, Rune