Re: [Groff] Foxley roff music notes of 1987

[Werner LEMBERG]

> There is an old roff language for programming music notes.  This is
> a troff preprocessor that translates into pic.  [...]
> 
> I do not understand why this preprocessor was not integrated.

Have you ever seen the Lilypond program?

  http://www.lilypond.org

Maybe this answers the question :-)

> Foxley has created a database of 1200 folk tunes and more, but I did
> not find anything about the preprocessor source.

Well...

> Maybe someone should contact him.  I think best would be someone
> from a British university.

This sounds like a good idea.  Instead of having a groff preprocessor
I suggest that someone is writing a music2lilypond script.


    Werner