Paul Morris <p...@paulwmorris.com> writes: >> On Jan 28, 2016, at 3:36 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >> >> Ouch. LilyPond is very dissimilar from TeX regarding a whole lot of >> things but certainly in the context of a call for programmers. > > […] > >> Python is just used for some scripting but not in the core application. > > Good points. We could just simplify it. How about this? > > LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the > highest-quality sheet music possible. The user describes the music in > a high-level text input format, which LilyPond processes to produce > pdf, png, svg, and/or midi files. Primary languages are C++ and > Guile/Scheme.
Last sentence: LilyPond is written in C++ and Guile (the GNU project's Scheme interpreter), with Guile also serving as user-level extension language. Slightly longer than your version (but shorter than before I think) but putting things a bit better into place. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
