Re: MIDI track names

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2015-08-04 um 16:03 schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:

> Heikki Tauriainen <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>>>> In that case, I suggest to default the name to header’s „title“
>>>> setting.  What do you think?
>>> 
>>> Could work.  Haven't looked into MIDI a lot though.
>> 
>> Using properties from the \header block (which sounds in principle
>> like a nice idea) is probably made more complicated by the fact that
>> the title metadata in a \header block can be arbitrary LilyPond
>> markup, and not necessarily a plain string that could be passed
>> through directly to the MIDI output file (and still get "acceptable"
>> output).
> 
> Markup stripping should be a solved problem since we prepare PDF
> metadata in the same manner.

Then pretty please implement it!
A different possibility to set the MIDI title, as Heikki suggested, would also 
be ok.
I found no tool (in MacPorts, that is) that can make such fixes to MIDI files.
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Greetlings, Hraban
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