Jeffery Shivers <jefferyshiv...@gmail.com> writes: > I've thought about this a lot, and I agree that OLL would be the > obvious means to implement a *contemporary notation* package with > LilyPond. > > A huge problem we will face with doing this, which will always be a > problem no matter how accessible/robust the library, is that there > will very often be some unexpected (and probably illogical) way that a > composer wants to notate their music. So if our software doesn't > support what they want, or they have to really *stretch* it to > accomplish their needs, it makes sense for them to turn to something > like inkscape for faster and more straightforward results, even though > that process won't carry all the benefits/flexibility of engraving > with a tool like LilyPond (for example, increasing the horizontal > spacing between everything in a multi-page score on a big ole inkscape > document is a much bigger deal than it is in LilyPond). > > This is all to say, "contemporary notation" encapsulates so many > possibilities, it'll be a tricky and probably exhausting process to > figure out the best way to make its use available to as many users as > possible. Not saying that to be discouraging, just realistic.
Man, that sounds to me like making explosives available to as many users as possible. I mean, I recognize that there is a need apparently to be served, but this rather sounds like a call to expanding that need. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
