Re: [Denemo-devel] About the last patch

[Adam Tee]

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 16:14:04 Richard Shann wrote:
> A couple of things about the last patch. It has an .svg for a dotted
> quaver (eighth note), though nothing is done with it.
dotted notes are two separate glyphs.  one for the notehead and another 
for the dot.   What I would like to do is migrate all the xpm's to svg at some 
point.

> And I included a \transpose c c
> directive in the lilypond output, which does nothing by itself but makes
> it easy to put in a transposition if you want one. In doing this I
> realized that the lilypond parser needed editing to accept it on input,
> so I did that, though of course, it doesn't actually do anything with
> it.

> Which raises the whole subject of reading back in lilypond files. I
> would like to re-visit this subject, as I have an idea that even if
> reading more or less arbitrary lilypond files into denemo may be too
> ambitious we may be able to devise a method of preserving the text of
> minor edits to denemo's lily output, carrying them around during denemo
> editing and spitting them out again at the end. The situation where
> denemo reads something in from .ly and then loses it when it writes it
> out is not, I think, acceptable.

I totally agree with this and look forward to your patch.


Thanks

Adam