On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:53:21PM -0000, dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008, "Carl D. Sorensen" <c_soren...@byu.edu> said: > > > LilyPond *is* strictly an ASCII/UTF-8 based input format. There is *no* > > facility for changing fonts used for input. > > DEFENSIVE!!!! you completely misunderstand me.
... > > I'm trying to give you suggestions > > to help you mesh with LilyPond, but none of them seem to be sinking in. > > Frankly? You seem to be madly digging the tranches deeper and piling the > dirt higher on the walls. The barbarians dont want to burn your city, > they heard there was a good time to be had inside. ... > Understand, and I really mean this sincerely. I have no intention of > doing harm. It will be some time before I can locate and digest whatever > overview is provided and go on to digest the rest of the docs and code, > Scheme will take longer yet. Undersatnd, and I really mean this sincerely. Carl is bending over backwards to help you. He's also far more polite than other developers. His comments are aimed at *saving you wasted effort*. As far as I can tell, your patches would not be accepted for merging into lilypond. Surely you would rather discover this *now*, instead of after 20 hours of work learning scheme and whatnot? > > I have a question, and it's meant to be sincere, not flippant. > > Have you ever set a piece using LilyPond? > > The short answer is no. In my mind, any useful discussion ends here. I'm not saying that your ideas are bad, but they differ so radically from the rest of lilypond that I cannot imagine them being accepted into our source tree. Please listen to Carl's concerns, and try typesetting some pieces. That will give you a much better idea of how lilypond works -- after doing this, you will probably realize that Carl was right and it would be better to pursue your ideas in a different program. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
