"Fairchild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tell me more please. Just what does your editor do?
Let's suppose that the line before where the cursor stands shows (with absolute octaves): g'4. a'8 <cursor> If I press the 'd' key on my keyboard, the line becomes: g'4. a'8 d''8 <cursor> There is two '' after the d because the nearest D from A is the one an octave higher. Now, if that d is a quater note, I just press the '4' key: g'4. a'8 d''4 <cursor> If, instead, I wanted a d an octave lower, I'd press the comma key: g'4. a'8 d'4 <cursor> And so on, for alterations and dots. But usually I use a MIDI keyboard for note entry, with Rumor. As I am a bad keyboard player, I chose to enter the notes without durations. After all the notes have been entered, I enter the durations, which is just a matter of hitting the relevant numeric keys. This thing has been written for emacs. It is functionnal (I mean: I use it). But some features are missing: for instance, it does not play well with chords -- this is litotes. <http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/lilypond/lyqi.html> I've written an other version fom scratch, more evolutive wrt LilyPond syntax, but terribly slow, so I throw it. Now I am investigating the possiblity of letting LilyPond do most of the stuff (among which the parsing of course), in an editor-agnostic way. But I don't know yet if it would be fast enough, and solid enough wrt syntax errors. Another track would be an implementation of a sort of Earley parser, which would be more tolerant wrt errors. I don't know if that would worth the price, though. nicolas _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
