On Wednesday 08 February 2006 13.09, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Milan Zamazal wrote: > > I started to work on a small project to output a Festival singing mode > > file from LilyPond input (this is useful for blind authors to easily > > check lyrics is properly aligned with music). I think this could be > > similar to producing MIDI output but I haven't found a way how to take > > advantage of it. > > > > Is there a better way how to do it than analyzing the parsed music > > expression (as displayed by \displayMusic)? Is there any documentation > > on adding new output formats (without modifying LilyPond)? > > I think the quickest hack would be to add an engraver to the Lyrics > context, which can catch lyric syllables and trace to which note > (including pitch and onset time) these are connected. Another option is > to analyse the music in a separate processing phase (this is similar to > how \partcombine works). I can make a quote, if you want to sponsor this.
When music streams are implemented, there is a simplification to this: The Lyric_combine_iterator knows which note each lyric syllable is synchronised to, so it can simply copy the 'pitch property from the note to the syllable. -- Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
