Hi,I see that there is some renewed activity in Lilypond dev and that's always nice to see.I would like to drop something entirely different into the pot. I have resurrected my Braille music output project, which was originated around 12 years ago and has been picked up and dropped at various times, mainly due to family issues and emigration. I've been beavering away it it for the past few months and I have a rough prototype, probably sort of a proof of concept really, to fully explore the issues. I have ended up with a set of C++ classes in a separate test bed, not integrated fully with Lilypond as yet and I can produce proper music Braille in bar-over-bar and single line format. The original intention was to come up with an API that could reside in a separate library linked to Lilypond thereby providing a resource that others could use. I have now arrived at the point where I need to make some decisions. Into my dev branch, dev/rlittle I have the beginnings of a framework based heavily on the midi implementation. Indeed it is composed of the the midi classes replicated and stripped down, into which I intended to seed calls to these classes to generate the Braille output.
I would like to elicit some opinion from the group as to where I should take the project from here. I would be interested in views on any aspect of the project, including but not limited to whether or not it should be an integral part of Lilypond or perhaps entirely separate, should it involve less C++ and more Guile, is the midi framework a suitable vehicle? I know that there have been suggestions that Braille could be generated from MusicXML and I know some people have started (and apparently abandoned) that effort and that is a valid option. For me, I would like to see some integration with Lilypond. One the one hand, Braille requires curation probably through Lilypond macros to direct line breaking, preferences for certain encoding options and the like, as we do currently for traditional output. The formatting challenges are very different from traditional scoring but some editorial input is required in some areas for aesthetic and reading efficiency concerns. Secondly, I would eventually like to see Braille output as an option on Mutopia as midi is now. RegardsRalph _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
