Hi David, > I'd put in my usual rant about the ungrateful and underpaid work to > improve infrastructure until user-accessible features become low-hanging > fruit and can be implemented for a smile and a song, but it is a bit > pointless since there aren't smiles and songs for those either.
1. I have often given my explicit thanks (both on-list and off-list) for improvements at both infrastructure and "low-hanging fruit" levels. Every time I notice a particularly nice improvement, I do so. I will continue to do so, despite the fact that my effort apparently isn't registering. 2. On several occasions, I've offered (either on-list or off-list) unsolicited post-hoc payment for such work. Most of the time, they have been explicitly refused by the associated programmer. At least twice, it was suggested that I pay someone other than the associated programmer — which I promptly did. I will continue to do so, despite the fact that my effort apparently isn't registering. 3. I have always been, and continue to be, happy to sponsor infrastructure improvements. That being said: (a) I am in no financial position to offer a monthly amount of any significance; and (b) nobody has ever asked me to sponsor infrastructure *other* than "please consider a monthly donation". On the rare occasions that I do have some extra money burning a hole in my pocket, I am happy to sponsor whatever moves Lilypond forward the fastest. If there are other "smiles and songs" that you need, please let me know so I can consider them. > I don't really see a lot happening apart from "people do what they want to > see done themselves". I get that. And I don't begrudge that. Which was exactly why I asked if I'm the only one who wants to see partcombine improve further. > In your case, you might want to take a look at add-quotable at the end > of scm/part-combiner.scm, see how you could possibly extract multiple > contexts from there, design a user interface for quoting those multiple > contexts resulting from a partcombine operation (or pick out a Lyrics > context instead of a Voice context) and go from there. Thank you for the concrete suggestion. Regards, 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
