Sorry for prolonging this thread... but have you taken a look at David Raleigh Arnold's "Lilypond Tools"? They are some interesting Python scripts for handling "\include" among other things. I forgot the URL, so use Google, please.
Eduardo Vieira ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:06 PM Subject: Re: Macro pre-processing? > > Thanks, being a musician I was unaware of such a program. I'll go buy the m4 > Windows XP version after I look at a demo version. > > I need to generate chord fret markup of each chord form in all enharmonic > spellings at every neck position, as a \include library of diagrams. This > is 200-300 lines of markup per chord, considering that I will be doing maybe > 1000 or so chord forms, thats a big LP file of 200,000 lines or so and over > 26,000 variable names (1000 chords times 26 enharmonic root name spellings > at all positions)! Each markup is assigned to a different variable, then I > just do a \include of this chord library file to have all my chord forms > available when doing arrangements. I have a naming standard where the > variable names dont get duplicated, I just need a macro processor to > generate each diagram at all fret positions and with all the possible > enharmonic root names. Having this library will same future time not having > to re-create the diagrams from scratch in each song.
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