Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2473 in lilypond: Point and Click also into the MIDI file

[lilypond]

Comment #2 on issue 2473 by address@hidden: Point and Click also into the  
MIDI file
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2473

The proposal suggests using the "Meta text" message, FF 01.  If you take a  
look at http://www.sonicspot.com/guide/midifiles.html you will find "Events  
that are not to be sent or received over a MIDI port are called Meta  
Events." and "Text Event
This meta event defines some text which can be used for any reason  
including track notes, comments, etc. The text string is usually ASCII  
text, but may be any character (0x00-0xFF)."

Since the location data is not of a general nature, I think it would make  
more sense to use "Sequencer Specific
This meta event is used to specify information specific to a hardware or  
software sequencer. The first Data byte (or three bytes if the first byte  
is 0) specifies the manufacturer's ID and the following bytes contain  
information specified by the manufacturer. The individual manufacturers may  
document this information in their respective manuals."

I don't know how manufacturers are assigned, but a manufacturer of "LY"  
would be sort of obvious.

Alternatively, _if_ we use the general text meta message, it should likely  
be in the form of a standard URI.  Possibly with a ?line=xxx,column=yyy tag  
at the end or a #xxx,yyy indication?  I don't know how this is done usually.