Re: Non-standard notation challenges (no game this time...)

[Urs Liska]

Am 23.01.2014 16:56, schrieb Keith OHara:
> Urs Liska <ul <at> openlilylib.org> writes:
>
> > The point in the edition of such snippets is to _document_ the actual
> > state of a manuscript. This isn't _music_ but rather a remainder from
> > the compositional process. Comparing this with later states allows an
> > editor to draw conclusions on the genesis of the composition.
>
> You will probably need to use PostScript.
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/
> formatting-text#graphic-notation-inside-markup
>
> Then those markings that have no certain interpretation are not input
> as musical glyphs that have an intended interpretaion, but as lines and
> curves.
>
> Probably the PostScript can be in text scripts, but with X-offset
> and Y-offset hand-tuned to particular numbers so that LilyPond does
> not try to place these marks herself.

Thanks.
I think this means: yes, I'm basically on the right track.

Would text scripts be better to handle than markups?

Urs