Re: Suggestion: Alternative ps/pdf link information, alt. Scoreinfo xml file export

[Mats Bengtsson]

I forward this to the developers list.

  /Mats

Jonas Nyström wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Right now, the resulting .ps contains link information for the 
> noteheads, pointing to the row and charachter in the source .ly file 
> (for example "textedit://c:/test.ly:14.2.2").
>
> It would be very useful if there could be alternative information in 
> this link, for example:
>
>     * x and y position for the notehead (using some kind of universal
>       unit)
>     * note-pitch for the notehead (defining it's pitch, for example
>       midi note)
>     * note-duration for the notehead
>     * ...
>
> Maybe this information could be joined into a query-style string, for 
> example
> "note-info:x=640&y=232&pitch=64&duration=128"
>
> Even better would be the export of a kind of "scoreinfo" xml, 
> containing the information above - thus linking the musical content 
> and objects on the exported picture together...
>
> This way, it would be simple to use the lilypond output in other 
> applications, for examle making notes clickable with sounding result.
>
> Regards / Jonas
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