Urs Liska <li...@openlilylib.org> writes: > Hi Giampaolo, > > > Am 09.01.2018 um 16:58 schrieb Giampaolo Orrigo: >> I definitely have an idea, although I don’t have the necessary >> programming knowledge to mentor, although I have the scholarly >> knowledge. >> I think the community would greatly benefit if LilyPond had full >> support for both white and black mensural notation. > > That sounds like a great idea. > >> There was an effort done some time ago but it was abandoned and the >> original author seems unreachable. > > Indeed, such things happen (you are talking about Lukas, right?). Also > the initial developer of the lilyJAZZ font has mysteriously become > invisible over time ...
Yes and no. He decided to revert to monetizing his font creation efforts. While I cannot blame him, the intersection of the sets of successful marketers and successful programmers is rather small. As a result, most attempts to go proprietary on single-person efforts fail in the monetary regard and have not even a generally available advance of the arts to show as a result. More often than not, the people attempting to monetize an effort were already spending all the time they could on that effort, and making the leap to _drop_ other sources of income in order to be able to afford investing more time, and more importantly, more creative energy, does rarely work out. I don't think that we'll see that kind of approach succeed until government steps in for more than defining ridiculous ranges of copyright. Copyright associations are usually _way_ beyond sanity in their conditions for both consumer and creator. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
