Re: [Denemo-devel] Import filter for CapXML

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 10:25 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> Am 14.04.2015 um 10:19 schrieb Richard Shann:
> > I could be of more help if you decide to go with generating a scheme
> > script as I have done this fairly recently. I didn't write the denemo
> > xml format so I know less about it - besides some obsolete forms it has
> > an overly-sophisticated method of giving staffs and voices id's and then
> > looking them up later. It is a more abstract way of describing the
> > Denemo music data which would be appropriate if there were ambitions for
> > the denemo format to be used by other programs.
> > Using the scheme script to build the music will be more robust as the
> > rule is never to change the semantics of a Denemo scheme procedure - we
> > just create a new one, while the .denemo format does evolve slowly. 
> > 
> > So practicality and elegance are negatively correlated between the three
> > methods we have come up with!
> 
> I see. Without having any knowledge about Denemo's internals, I would
> surmise that for each built-in Scheme command there is a C function that
> imlements it. Is that true? And if yes, can I use those C functions
> directly? That would be a fourth, more elegant way.

but those functions take parameters of the opaque type SCM which are
created by Guile, the Scheme interpreter we use and return SCM values...

Richard



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