Am 21.03.2017 um 06:46 schrieb have@anti.capital: > A composer who uses an irrational tuplet is a composer who is going out of > his way to exclude his music from comfortable notation. Oh, I think that these irrational tuplets are comfortable to write easy to understand if you use traditional notation.
> I'm not too concerned about that corner case of corner cases and am frankly > honored you have to dig so deep to try and break my format. If you’re interested I’ll do a quick search and find some more music by not-cornercase-composers that breaks your format. > But in any case, there's precisely nothing to stop you from approximating as > far as you want, with an explanatory comment appended if needed. So here is the point where your format is readable neither for humans nor for computers. > Nor am I concerned if my plaintext file format is not as comfortable in > terminal editors as it is in the GUI text editors that everyone has and most > people use. So the most powerful terminal editors like vim and emacs just aren’t good enough for your genius format? Sad but probably their fault. Oh wait: It’s not the choice of editor that makes these files uncomfortable to handle with. > I note that Ctrl-U (view source) renders it perfectly in Firefox. Is anyone > going to see a .premusic file online, save it, navigate to that location in > terminal, and be dismayed that the code is a little wide for their > unmaximized Emacs? Yes, there are people that’ll do exactly this. (Ok, I prefer vim but that’s not the point here.) > If wraps become a necessity, then - fine! I'll make a wrap character. ;; Ahaha, you thought you could do a complete score in just one line? I’ll be happy to see your version of “Eine Alpensinfonie” by Richard Strauss. I can imagine some text editors crashing on that. Maybe they won’t crash if you insert line breaks but then you’ll need a very durable mouse wheel. > --------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: What can Premusic do that > others can't? > From: "Werner LEMBERG" <w...@gnu.org> > Date: 3/21/17 12:19 am > To: have@anti.capital > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > > You might create a description of your syntax on, say, github, also > setting up a mailing list to which interested people can subscribe. For this description to be perfectly well-defined/unambiguous you’ll need a masochist who loves formal languages/grammars, at least if some day a computer program should be able to read these scores. And you’ll want that because no human can do so. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
