Re: ob-lilypond

[Martyn Jago <martyn.jago@btinternet.com>]

Hi Cameron 

> Hi,
> 
> I'm thrilled that Lilypond has been added to Babel, grateful for the 
> extra thought given to Mac users -- and completely bowled over by your 
> demos!
> 
> So please consider this a polite request to bump up "Consider the 
> option to embed resultant partial musical output into org file" from 
> SOMEDAY to TODO in your task list...

Thanks for the encouraging comments!

Status changed from SOMEDAY to TODO. 

> 
> 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).

Regards

Martyn