Answer him that A) Lilypond does have its builtin extension language, and that this is so intertwined with LilyPond's internal working that it allows to do _very_ much, surely more and more fundamental than any "scripting engine".
B) As LP input files are plain you can use _any_ programming language to modify, analyze or even generate LilyPond input files. Depending on your relation to the asker you might admit that A) actually _does_ have some learning curve. Urs SoundsFromSound <soundsfromso...@gmail.com> schrieb: >A friend of mine, who is a long time Finale user, asked me today: > >"Does LilyPond allow you to use programming languages like Lua for >scripting >or functions to expand its capabilities? That's one of the things I >love >about Finale nowadays....." > >I was not sure how to answer. Does LilyPond have any use (need?) to >work w/ >Lua or other languages besides Scheme? Would that add anything to the >package or just be superfluous? > >Ben > > > >----- >composer | sound designer >LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond >-- >View this message in context: >http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Other-programming-languages-LilyPond-tp154861.html >Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >_______________________________________________ >lilypond-user mailing list >lilypond-user@gnu.org >https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
_______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
