On 31 December 2010 23:53, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 05:35:43PM +0100, Sven Axelsson wrote:
>> Perhaps a starting point would be if someone could have a look at what
>> I'm doing in https://github.com/svenax/bagpipemusic/. The relevant
>> file is bagpipe_new.ly, and there are lots of examples on how to use
>> it in the repo as well.
>>
>> The new mode is not backwards compatible with the old one, so I would
>> have to include some convert-ly rules if approved.
>
> Are there any parts of your new file that can be added without
> tweaking the score and layout?  If so, why not prepare a patch for
> those "un-controversial" parts, and get those accepted first?
>
> Are your layout tweaks any less severe than stuff we do for
> gregorian?  If so, that could be a good reason to accept them.  If
> not, you could just make a few macros which do the tweaks, so that
> users only have to do
> \include "bagpipe.ly"
> \paper {
>  \bagpipeSpacing
> }

Quite correct. Here's a patch that only introduces the improved
gracenote spacing and adds a few more complex grace notes. That should
be fairly uncontroversial I believe.

http://codereview.appspot.com/3825043

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Sven Axelsson
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