> 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 :-) > 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
