Re: A kick from history...

[Sven Axelsson]

On 27 February 2017 at 22:57, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 4:26 PM, tisimst <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:10 AM, David Kastrup [via Lilypond] <
> >> address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I suddenly remembered that I should have entered some Dowland
> previously
> >>> and dug around on my disk, finding this:
> [snip]
> >>
> >> I like the clarity of LP's input syntax verbosity, but am I ever glad
> I'm
> >> not forced to be _that_ verbose!
> >
> > If you think that is bad, you should take a look at the original
> MusiXTeX input.
>
> Well, the respective output file (after stripping off mpp.tex which
> apparently is included every time) gives a good idea of how this would
> have looked in MusiXTeX:
> [snip verbosity]
>

Ah yes, MusixTeX. Those were the days. I used to do my bagpipe music in
MusixTex and before that, in MusicTeX. I must say that I greatly prefer
Lilypond though. Because of the fiddly syntax, I used to define a macro for
each bar so they could be easily reused (bagpipe music tend to be quite
repetitive). That is fortunately not necessary any more.

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Sven Axelsson
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