[O] Babel: 1st version for music notation language Fomus

[Torsten Anders]

Dear Babel developers, 

Inspired by the newly available Lilypond, I hacked up a first version of 
language support for Fomus (http://fomus.sourceforge.net/). Briefly, Fomus is a 
music notation system that translates a relatively simple domain specific music 
language into multiple output formats, including Lilypond and MusicXML (the 
latter is an open format supported by many commercial music notation systems 
such as Finale and Sibelius). In a nutshell, Fomus can simplify the generation 
of complex scores, because it can add various score information automatically. 
Anyway, please find my first attempt of a Fomus integration attached.

This works already fine for standard code blocks such as the following. Note 
that the result of this is a Lilypond file.

#+begin_src fomus :file test1.ly
  time 0 dur 2 pitch 60; 
  time 2 dur 1 pitch 62; 
  time 3 dur 1 pitch 63; 
  time 4 dur 4 pitch 65; 
#+end_src

Of course, because this is a quick hack, various improvements can be made. For 
example, it might be a good idea to allow for something like :file test.pdf, 
where the resulting Lilypond call would see file.ly, but the automatically 
inserted link in the org buffer would be the resulting file.pdf.

Comments are welcome. 

Best wishes,
Torsten

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Dr Torsten Anders
Course Leader, Music Technology
University of Bedfordshire
Park Square, Room A315
http://strasheela.sourceforge.net
http://www.torsten-anders.de

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