Re: A proposal of organize music paragraph layout by a new DSL

[K.L.]

P.S. I can't imagine some guys in a band using a music sheet with different
measure indices for every track😂. How will they tell each other where I am
playing? If there are some repeat marks, will they be uniform in position?
If they are, solely declaring the first track's layout is enough.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 1:33 PM K.L. <k.l.lambda@gmail.com> wrote:

> I see. For unequal-length measure tracks, we must declare layout for every
> track separately. However, if this situation occurs very often, maybe we
> should add a semantic for track, like:
>
> 1,2
>> 1,2,3
>> 1,2,3,4
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> For compactness, I suggest utilizing the new line character \n as a
> grammar token.
>
> Personally, I don't think this is very necessary.
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 9:16 PM Kieren MacMillan <
> kieren_macmillan@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> >> How does that work with polymetric music?
>> > Sorry, I don't know what is polymetric music exactly. Can you show an
>> example?
>>
>> See the second example (“Different time signatures with unequal-length
>> measures”) in this section of the Lilypond docs:
>> <
>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#polymetric-notation
>> >
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kieren.
>> ________________________________
>>
>> Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his)
>> ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info
>> ‣ email: kieren@kierenmacmillan.info
>>
>>