Hello, Daniel Spreadbury (former Sibelius project manager, currently working for Steinberg on a new scoring application) has just published a post in which he shows how awesome Steinberg's application is going to be, by comparing rest positioning in LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius to what will be possible in the upcoming application: http://blog.steinberg.net/2014/02/development-diary-part-the-fifth/ (highly recommended reading). Not surprisingly, LilyPond mercilessly beats Finale and Sibelius to death, but our output isn't perfect yet.
In order to show the world that LilyPond can _now_ be as good as Steinberg's product will be in the future, i'd like to sponsor improving rest formatting so that LilyPond will produce desired notation out-of-the-box. I will pay 80 Euro to a fearless hero ;-) who will implement smart rest positioning - that is, make LilyPond: a) render the example used by Daniel just like Gould says it should look, b) handle the attached example as well. The rules are: - it must be a built-in, enabled-by-default functionality (not a snippet), - the code must pass LilyPond code review and be merged into master branch, - it has to be done quite fast, let's say until March 10 (if you think you could do it if you just had more time, we can negotiate). I could prepare more examples to narrow down the desired behaviour. Maybe someone would like to pitch in and double the bounty? best, Janek
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