Re: ob-lilypond

[Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>]

Hi Martyn

Thank you very much for sharing your work.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 19:06, Martyn Jago <martyn.jago@btinternet.com> wrote:
>> But much better, IMO, would be a way to `evaluate' a single Lilypond
>> block and get #+RESULTS with a link to a PNG representing just that
>> snippet of music. The snippet would then show up in subsequent exports
>> as an included graphic without any post-processing, and could also be
>> viewed in-buffer with `C-c C-x C-v'. (For my money, this and not
>> `tangle all' would be the intuitive use of `C-c C-c' on a block, but I
>> understand how your choice makes sense for other uses.)
>>
>> Yours,
>> Christian
>
> This is very doable since it is the first thing I tried on initial
> experimentation. I think I had some difficulty cropping the snippet (png)
> in that the result had no padding at all, but I'm guessing that can be
> overcome.
> Certainly with the use cases you suggest, the defaults would need to
> change, and C-c C-c would need to act as you describe, but that wouldn't
> be an issue if we can define seperate 'modes' for the different ways of
> working (I think for now the 'modes' can be considered  mutually exclusive).

For me it would be great to have Lilypond snippets that can be
evaluated into a linked score image file visible inline the Org
buffer, permanently in #+results: or temporarily as an overlay
(similar to org-preview-latex-fragment).

Michael