Re: extracting markup texts for braille

[Maurits Lamers]

Hi Aaron,

That is a great suggestion. Thanks a lot!

I have been playing around with it and noticed that in order to keep the 
order of the generated braille identical to the Lilypond code, I would 
need to also override the top-level-score-handler, and possibly others 
to keep track of the order of the top level elements. Is that something 
that could possibly cause issues in the future?

One additional question: I would like to keep the newlines, as that will 
keep the braille close to what is printed in the PDF. The solution I 
came up with is

%%%%

#(set! (markup-function-as-string-method line-markup)
    (lambda (layout props markup)
        (string-append (string-trim-both (markup->string markup) 
char-set:whitespace) "\n")
    )
)

%%%%

I would like to know whether such a solution is acceptable, or whether 
there is a better way to achieve the same.

What I did notice: with the example you gave earlier, I keep getting a 
space at the beginning of the second line. I tried to use the 
string-trim-both function to get rid of it, but for unclear reasons that 
space doesn't get removed.

cheers

Maurits

Op 01-04-2024 om 16:15 schreef Aaron Hill:
> On 2024-04-01 3:47 am, Maurits Lamers via Discussions on LilyPond 
> development wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I also asked this question on the lilypond-user mailing list, but I 
> > gather it is a rather complex question for that list. As you might be 
> > aware, I have been working on a braille extension for Lilypond which 
> > (based on the music info extraction example) renders Lilypond scores 
> > into music braille.
> >
> > While the listener system works great for extracting musical 
> > information, it doesn't provide any methods to extract text inserted 
> > outside of the music context.
> >
> > In my specific case, I am trying to convert a songbook, which has the 
> > format of printing one verse of a song with the music notation, and 
> > with the remainder of the song text as \markup text blocks below the 
> > music.
> >
> > Is there any way that I could extract this text in order to include 
> > it with the generated braille? The preferred solution should be as 
> > transparent as the listener system is for the musical information.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>
>
> Easiest option would probably be to tie into the `toplevel-text-handler`:
>
> %%%%
> \version "2.25.13"
>
> #(let ((original-proc toplevel-text-handler))
>   (set! toplevel-text-handler (lambda (markup)
>     (format #t "~a\n" (markup->string markup))
>     (original-proc markup))))
>
> \markup \column {
>   \line { \bold { Lorem ipsum } dolor sit amet, }
>   \line { \italic consectetur adipiscing elit. }
> }
> %%%%
>
>
> -- Aaron Hill