2014-04-11 14:52 GMT+02:00 Jan-Peter Voigt <jp.vo...@gmx.de>: > Yes, but lilypond is a text-based commandline tool that can easily be used > with frescobaldi. So I would say, it's a good thing, if there are ways to > make communication between lily and frescobaldi easier to achieve cool > things. But the graphical part is still on frescobaldis side - and should > stay there. IMO lily should stay as silly as possible regarding this matter, > because otherwise we might complicate things. And if frescobaldi can provide > such a thing, thats great, *but* its a frescobaldi issue, *not* a lilypond > issue. I say that, because we might modify things in lilypond to make this > possible in frescobaldi, but making it worse for other frontends.
This and other previous ideas make me remember that the LilyPondTool, the jEdit plugin, had a ruler tool that solved one of the impossible problems of text-based input: visual interactivity. It wasn't as useful as it should because a large dialog appeared and you had to check the docs anyway and take many decisions, and thus it was error-prone, cumbersome and awkward to use (and more adjectives alike if I knew them). That said, it still worked well if you were very experienced. This is how it was used: you placed the text cursor right where an override command should go. Then you could move a grob in the PDF preview with your mouse and hit OK, and the complete command was pasted in the code, provided that you set all settings correctly. I think that the right context and cursor coordinates could be chosen automatically, and this would become a _very_ useful tool that filled one of the few holes our workflow has. It served perfectly for bezier control coordinates of slurs, too. I think this all falls on the Frescobaldi side. I like LP text based with the almost infinite power of code, easily writable and highly readable (although some of the most complex scores are nearly "write-only"). Open format, human readable scores _and_ beautiful default results are a dream come true for me. My 2 euro cents. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
