Oops forgot to attach one of the files to prior message.  Here it is.
Cheers,
Mike


On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Michael Ellis
<michael.f.el...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> Took me a day longer than I thought to get around to this.  Here are the
> main scripts I'm currently using.  They are heavily tailored toward the ways
> I use LilyPond, namely transcribing songs and choral parts in movable do
> solfege and constructing violin exercises in 12 keys.
>
> The files included are:
>
> *mixlyrics.py *-- defines the MixLyrics class that knows how to parse out
> lines beginning with '@@' as lyrics lines beginning with '@H' as chord
> names.
>
> *songtemplate.py* -- The all-purpose template I use for anything that has
> one voice with (optionally) lyrics and/or chord symbols.  When I want to
> transcribe something, I open an empty .py file in vim and read this template
> in.  There are two variables that take triple-quoted strings containing
> LilyPond notation. One is named 'header' and contains title, composer, etc.
>  The other is named 'songly'. This is where you enter the music, e.g.
>
> songly = r"""
>     \tempo "Moderato" 4 = 105
>     \time 3/4
>     \set midiInstrument = #"violin"
>     \clef treble
>     \key do \major  %% Needed, don't change
>
>     @@ A -- las, my love you do me wrong to
>     @H r4 la2.:min  do2. sol2. mi2.:min
>     \partial 4
>     la4 | do2 re4 |
>     mi4.( fi8) mi4 |
>     re2 ti4 |
>     sol4.( la8) ti4 |
>
>     @@ cast me out dis -- cour -- teous -- ly.
>     @H la2.:min  fa2.  mi2. mi2
>     do2 la4 |
>     la4.( si8) la4 |
>     ti2 si4  |
>     mi2
>
>     \bar "||"
>     """
>
> There are also two list variables, 'keys' and 'octaves'  than control how
> many which keys and octaves are output.
>
> *english-solfa.ly* -- a version of english.ly with solfege syllables
> added.
>
> *lily *-- the shell script that ultimately gets called to process the
> lilypond file created by song template.py. You may need to alter this to
> match your lilypond installation.
>
> *songtemplate.pdf* -- what you should get from running "python
> songtemplate.py" if everything is installed correctly.
>
>
> Even if these aren't useful as is,  they may give you some ideas for using
> python to automate your own tasks.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Michael Ellis <michael.f.el...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Sure. I'll send them out tomorrow afternoon. Need to clean them up a bit.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>>
>> On Dec 18, 2010, at 10:18 PM, Michael Webster <semiqua...@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> > @mike - would you be willing to share your Python scripts? I'd love to
>> see them... tia
>> >
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>>
>
>

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