On Mon, 2023-12-11 at 03:49 -0800, Aaron Hill wrote: > Why should ly2video need any such smarts at all? Since there are > myriad > ways an end user can structure their input files, let LilyPond do its > job and have ly2video ask it for all the information needed. It > sounds > like ly2video is already injecting code to add new engravers and what > not for extracting timing details. Do the same but dump all of the > relevant header fields while you are at it. At this point, ly2video > only needs to parse this extracted data and can completely ignore > what > the end user is doing in their source.
ly2video was started in 2012. I have no idea what the capabilities of lilypond were at that time. That's the short answer. Yes it would be nice if ly2video could completely ignore what the end user is doing in their source. If possible.
