Hi David, Thanks for the helpful response.
> The problem with a bounty-driven approach is that it only works for > low-hanging fruit. You cannot pay every passersby interested in a > bounty to first start constructing his personal ladder. Agreed. I guess what I was hoping to do is pay a orchard scaffold builder something to design/build a reasonable base, and then pay whichever transient fruit-picker(s) might be available and interested to actually pick the fruit (at whatever level they can “safely” reach). > In this case, there may be a point in paying for > local workarounds done within the existing framework, workarounds that > don't easily generalize to other areas but can be done in narrower time > frames and with less overall work than changing the whole framework > would be, even if that means that eventually they might get replaced > with simpler solutions. Certainly there is a cost-benefit decision to be made here. > waiting it out until everything in LilyPond has been "done properly” > is not much of an option for many people. It definitely isn’t for me: far too many mission-critical commissions on the go or in the hopper, and my imminent (e.g., < 1 year) blitz to self-publish my entire existing catalogue. > LilyPond does not fare all that bad in comparison of automated > typesetters, but part of the reason is just that others suck even worse > and are much more a collection of workarounds. Agreed. Lilypond is still the best tool out there for my needs. I just wish I could do more, and more beautiful, engraving with a smaller investment of time and effort. (Isn’t that the eternal quest?) > I do suspect that the results will again depend more on local hacks > rather than global optimization and positioning frameworks Well, then… I revise my statement: I’m interested in sponsoring the many outstanding Lyric fixes, *regardless* of whether the larger picture is being considered at all times. Thanks! Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
