On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 12:56:34AM +0100, Joacim Persson wrote:
>
> Another project that also was mentioned that I've never heard of before (and
> they say there are too few apps for freeware systems? I can't keep track on
> them anylonger) was `tclmidi', tcl for producing MIDI-files. I wasn't
> alltogether serious when I mentioned coupling musixtex/lyx/midi, but it
> might be possible to generate musixtex from LyX for high-quality printouts,
> and tclmidi for listening to the music in the scores... could be pretty
> nifty. (as we already have a layout for film scripts, we could now aim for
> the hearts of the ppl that makes the music to the films =) Anyway I think
> it's worth looking into the paradigms of those two systems and see if they
> can be combined through lyx in some clever way. Midi will demand that the
> instruments for each part is defined, musixtex is only concerned about
> typesetting and probably doesn't organise the notes according to that
> demand -- that's one obvious problem, another one is that muxitex is not a
> wrapper around latex (there is a latex version, just not full functionality
> or something, I haven't looked that closely at the package yet).
You might be thinking of lilypond, mirrored at
http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond
There was actually an X version started, but the guy apparently quit soon
after starting the project because he was too busy. If only I weren't busy
writing a thesis and getting a Real Job, and I knew more about latex, X,
C++, and LyX, I would be really excited to work on this project :)
-Amir
