Implement it as a standalone program. We have a number of similar converters
today included in the LilyPond distribution, such as midi2ly, abc2ly, etf2ly
implemented in the Python scripting language. If you want your converter
included with LilyPond you should therefore also implement it in Python.
The abc2ly script should be a good starting point, since ABC seems like
a similar ascii format.
/Mats
Chad Thatcher wrote:
Hello all,
I am new to Lilypond and the devel list so hello to everyone. I think
Lilypond is a fantastic program and as I am a developer would like to
contribute something to the project. Selfishly, I would like my first
contribution to be something that convert an ancient incipit to the
Lily textual format to allow Lily to reproduce it in musical notation.
I am currently working with a cataloging project at the British
Library which is recording all musical manuscripts between the years
1600 and 1800, I have developed an application for them to data input
and manage the manuscripts. The information supplied with each
manuscript sometimes comes with an "incipit" for the beginning of the
music. Here is an example of an entire incipit pulled from the record
for Sonata 1 by Johann Sebastian Bach:
''4G{3G FbEDC'BA5
BG}{8GxF+}{3FEDEFGA''5C'B}/''8{C+3C5DC'3B''C}{6.Ct'5B''C6D'A}''
8G'3-{G5AB''CD}{8b
E'B}/{6BA''bED}8-{BxF}{6D3DbEDC'B''5C'A}{3BxFGDbE''5DC'B''CC'B''C}/
I would like to convert this to Lily textual notation so that Lily can
then reproduce it in musical notation so regular users of the web
catalogue can just click a link and run this up into Lilypond. My
main problem right now is that while I am a good developer I have only
just begun learning about music and see this as being a real problem.
I would like to hear from anybody on this matter and whether or not I
am spitting into the wind on this one given my dire lack of knowledge
of music. I would also like to find out if anyone else has had a stab
at this kind of thing. Finally a few pointers as to where to start
looking in the extensive programmers docs would be very useful.
Kind regards,
Chad.
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