Garreth <dr.broes...@gmail.com> writes: > I am brand new to Lilypond (and Frescobaldi), like a couple of days new. I am > a music theory professor looking to use some computer skills I have (I know > some Python) to aid my teaching and research. I am sorry if this is a really > basic question, or if it's been answered elsewhere in these forums. I tried > to find an answer but didn't find one that made a lot of sense to me. > > Here are my questions: > > Can one write programs in Python that will then structure and launch scores > in Frescobaldi/Lilypond? Specifically, I would like to write algorithms in > Python that, given parameters I am working on programming, can write scores > that can then be translated to and launched in Lilypond/Frescobaldi? > > Could one conceivably go the other way, somehow send a Lilypond document to > a Python program that can "grade" and "evaluate" the score in ways that I am > working on programming? > > I am not looking for a lot of depth at this point. I basically just want to > know if these scenarios are possible. I don't want to spend a whole lot of > time learning programs (like Lilypond and Frescobaldi) if my end goal simply > isn't possible. > > Thank you so much for helping an sorry again if this has been covered > elsewhere!
LilyPond uses Scheme (in particular GNU Guile) as its extension language. Frescobaldi, however, is written in Python and has a library for parsing a lot of LilyPond (which it uses for syntax highlighting, indentation, on-the-fly transposition and conversion between relative/absolute mode, so it does a somewhat comprehensive job). So you might have success reading up the Frescobaldi programmer or power-user level documentation. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
