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> From: 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng <hhpmu...@163.com>
> Date: March 24, 2011 8:36:47 AM EDT
> To: "m...@apollinemike.com" <m...@apollinemike.com>
> Subject: Re:Re: LilyPond and visually impaired accessibility
>
> Ah, if it's possible, just do a musicxml backend. Because braille music is
> more flexible than Lilypond, so just use musicxml. Musicxml can be translated
> into braille with different formatting used by different countries. For
> example, 27 lines X 34 cells is Chinese layout, but 27*32 or 25*40 is US
> convention, and in Italy, 30*40! Therefore, using braille backend for
> Lilypond is very difficult.
> Of course, Lilypond's braille backend is very useful to the blind musician.
> Currently, there's no tool handling braille to print music well. Italian
> scientists made Braille Music Editor, but it's not so good. Although it can
> output musicxml, the scoring is very limited. You can only use 5-line staves,
> and you can't edit page formattings. With Lilypond, all are solved, but blind
> people need to check their scores in braille using a freshable braille
> display. Sometimes the midi output should be better using a notation
> program's vst plugin, so importing Lily's xml into Sibelius is a good thing.
> For example, currently I can only learn sequencing to make a better output of
> my overture, but if I can import musicxml into Sibelius, the music will sound
> much better than using a soundfont with Lily's poor midi output. A professor
> is willing to help me to let this music performed, but I think a well-sounded
> sample is necessary.
>
> Regards
> Haipeng
>
>
>
Hey all,
One of my goals for 2011 is to improve LilyPond's accessibility for the blind.
I got this response from Haipeng (who currently has to rely on LilyPond's
playback to catch errors) and I get the sense that the best option would be
creating a primitive form of lily -> musicxml conversion. Even if this cannot
encapsulate the full richness of LilyPond, I think that it is the best solution
that can help the most people.
Before I start working on this (I estimate it'd be 10 hours of my time to get a
prototype for a simple line of music), I want to get your feedback on its
utility. Does this seem like a good approach? I've brought this up on the
French list before and it seems like there are 2 people who could help out w/
the Scheme coding to get this thing up and running.
Cheers,
MS
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