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Re: [Groff] Foxley roff music notes of 1987
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Heinz-Jürgen Oertel |
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Re: [Groff] Foxley roff music notes of 1987 |
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Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:40:18 +0100 |
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Am Freitag 08 Februar 2013, 08:44:03 schrieb 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 :-)
Wow, 842 pages manual.
I don't what it is about, but it is impressive.
Heinz
>
> > 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
>