Re: [Groff] Foxley roff music notes of 1987

[Peter Schaffter]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013, Werner Lemberg wrote:
> 
> > There is an old roff language for programming music notes.  This is
> > a troff preprocessor that translates into pic.  [...]
> > 
> > I do not understand why this preprocessor was not integrated.
> 
> Have you ever seen the Lilypond program?
> 
>   http://www.lilypond.org
> 
> Maybe this answers the question :-)
> 
> > Foxley has created a database of 1200 folk tunes and more, but I did
> > not find anything about the preprocessor source.
> 
> Well...
> 
> > Maybe someone should contact him.  I think best would be someone
> > from a British university.
> 
> This sounds like a good idea.  Instead of having a groff preprocessor
> I suggest that someone is writing a music2lilypond script.

As a longtime lilypond user, I'm in inclined to agree with Werner's
implication (I hope I'm not misreading!).  Lilypond is so good
there's not much point in using anything else.

(Mind you, I have of late been seduced by the charms of a WYSIWYG
score editor called Musescore.)

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Peter Schaffter
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