Re: Offer to help development: Convert MIDI to Lilypond

[karl]

Graham:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 08:21:58PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> > > At that point, an interested person -- perhaps yourself? -- could
> > > offer further patches which improved the quality of the lilypond
> > > code.
> > 
> > Well, I'm working on theese:
> >  http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/musik/bin/miditoly.pl
> >  http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/musik/bin/midi_to_lilypond.tex
> 
> Hmm.  At the moment, there is no perl used in user scripts in
> lilypond, and thus we do not distribute a perl interpreter as part
> of our application bundle.  Adding perl would be a significant
> complication.

Yes, I know, that is why I haven't offered it for inclusion.

> That said, I'm quite willing to believe that your experience with
> miditoly.pl could help inform the conversion process in midi2ly.py
> -- what types of quantization work best, or how to decide which
> accidental to use, etc.  Once we have the basics working, Joe may
> want to investigate more advanced techniques.

That is why I started on the tex file, so that someone else could
grasp the issues and implementation choises.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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