Hi Joseph, > it seems there are a bunch of optimizations and improvements > that would be needed to see Lilypond becoming a serious contender > on mobile or low-power devices etc.
Agreed -- and I believe that should be a serious short-term objective for the community. > I'm speaking purely from the experience of trying to compile > Valentin's opera on my laptop. :-) Even my not-so-gigantic pieces (20' quartet, 27' chamber opera) were unwieldy -- I'm definitely not looking forward to the compilation times for my upcoming large-scale projects (oratorio and puppet opera). > one thing I would be interested in is the development of > 'free/open scholarly urtext editions' -- think Project Gutenberg > but for music, not just the kind of 'engrave the old Breitköpf > edition' stuff that you see from random enthusiasts on IMSLP, > but carefully-prepared expert-scholarship urtext editions > with well defined editorial guidelines, etc. etc. Sounds amazing, and definitely part of my Grand Scheme. > Take the Neue Mozart Ausgabe as an example -- it's available to browse > free online, but it's _ridiculous_ that this scholarly archive of > Mozart's texts is still under proprietary lock and key in this day and > age. The scholarly and music-professional consequences of having a > high-quality open archive that anyone can access and derive from are > fairly profound. > > So, if you can persuade Rice to take up that kind of challenge -- kind > of 'O'Reilly for music publishing' -- you'll have done something rather > marvellous, IMO. Wish me luck! =) Kieren. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
