Dear Joerg, I write to you because there is interest in supporting NoteEdit in LyX. LyX is an open source word processor that builds on LaTeX. See http://www.lyx.org for more information about LyX.
LyX has a feature for embedding external material in your documents. We would like to implement support for music in LyX, and in this regard, it seems that the combination of NoteEdit and Lilypond is the perfect solution. The general idea is this: The user can choose to insert a NoteEdit document in a special inset in LyX. This will appear in the shape of a button with the name of the file in the user's document in LyX. When he clicks on this, LyX will invoke NoteEdit with the NoteEdit file for editing. Then, when the user wants to preview or print his document, LyX has to create the needed output in the background. For this purpose, LyX has to convert the NoteEdit file to Lilypond format, and then invoke Lilypond to produce the raw LaTeX that is needed. The end result will be the beautifully typeset music inside your document. However, we can not automate this completely, because it seems that it is not possible to export a NoteEdit file to Lilypond format from the command line. Therefore, we would politely ask if it was possible for you to implement this feature. If we had this, both NoteEdit and LyX would be more interesting products: LyX would be the first word processor that supported very beautiful music, and NoteEdit on the other hand, could benefit from the ease of use that LyX provides, which would make it easier to produce complete documents with music in them. I had a brief look at your source code, and it seemed that you already have done a lot of the work as part of the KParts architechture. However, we would prefer a solution that is independent of the KDE infrastructure, because we would not want LyX to link to the KDE libraries. So, what do you think? Would it be possible? Thanks, Asger Alstrup Nielsen On behalf of the LyX development team.
