Re: ASCII Music Notation?

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> 
> In article <crZq4.24$kD3...@sapphire.mtt.net>,
> Shaun Mead  <sha...@ns.sympatico.caREMOVE, CAPITALIZED, TEXT> wrote:
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> >I thought about this once, and I realize is isn't very easy. I'll give it a
> >crack at a small staff.
> >
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> >Here's hoping you'll find some use from these suggestions.
> 
> Thanks for all who sent in suggestions!  (Too bad a few of them were signed,
> we can't use those.)  Over the weekend I've prepared a first minimal
> version of an ascii backend to LilyPond.  There are now two ascii staff
> sizes; height 5 and 9 character.  For each size, there's a font of ascii
> characters: mf/as5.af an mf/as9.af.  The LilyPond music typesetter
> generates the AsciiScript typesetting recipe.  This AsciiScript
> is then plotted by a simple external program: scripts/as2text.scm.
> 
> Lots of work still needs to be done.  I haven't had the time to get the
> placement of most characters right.  The ascii font files are to be
> considered very much work-in-progress, but you can already have a look
> if you want.
> 
> You can pick up a copy of GNU LilyPond at:
> 
>    ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/v1.3/lilypond-1.3.25.tar.gz
> 
> or see
> 
>    http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond
(snip)

Hey, looks like you actually used some of my suggestions! Although I downloaded
it and still haven't got a clue on god's green earth how to even _start_ the
program. Looks nice anyway.

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