Re: MIDI track names

[David Kastrup]

Heikki Tauriainen <address@hidden> writes:

>> > In that case, I suggest to default the name to header’s „title“
>> > setting.  What do you think?
>> 
>> Could work.  Haven't looked into MIDI a lot though.
>
> Using properties from the \header block (which sounds in principle
> like a nice idea) is probably made more complicated by the fact that
> the title metadata in a \header block can be arbitrary LilyPond
> markup, and not necessarily a plain string that could be passed
> through directly to the MIDI output file (and still get "acceptable"
> output).

Markup stripping should be a solved problem since we prepare PDF
metadata in the same manner.

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David Kastrup