On Jan 13, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Philip Rhoades <p...@pricom.com.au> wrote:
> People,
>
> I am doing my own Alternative Notation for Classical Guitar and with a lot of
> help from Paul Morris am making good progress. I was about to write a little
> Ruby script to generate random notes (400 == 100 bars) within different
> ranges to practise jumping around the fretboard but it occurred to me that I
> might be able to do this in Scheme - which would help further the cause of
> learning for Lilypond. Is this a sensible thing to do or should I just do it
> with ruby and plug the results into a .ly file?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.
It can be done in Scheme, but I find that it’s better to do it in a scripting
language (I use Python). abjad (http://abjad.mbrsi.org/) is great for that
sorta thing.
Generating human readable .ly syntax is valuable to spot errors, and
creating/manipulating events in Scheme is annoying.
Cheers,
MS
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