Hi Daniel, you may have heard there's a conference soon in Salzburg. I will have a talk there as well, thus I doubt I can't look into the problem you've reported before I'm back.
Nevertheless in alzburg I'll talk about user-defined extensions for LilyPond. During the talk I'll frequently recommend reading the Extending Manual to get basic knowledge about scheme/guile. Though, I've already heard about difficulties about using scheme to write own extension pretty often. Just like you say: Am So., 12. Jan. 2020 um 22:19 Uhr schrieb Daniel Rosen <drose...@gmail.com>: > I want to express how grateful I am to this list for being so helpful with > this issue, since I have zero knowledge about how to use Scheme. (I've tried > to tackle the Extending manual on multiple occasions, but I find it extremely > difficult to understand, probably because I have no programming experience.) I have the suspicion it's not, because guile is difficult, at least so far as the scheme-tutorial reaches out, but because it's difficult to find a way to modify LilyPond's default with scheme. In the sense of: What am I supposed to do with my new basic guile-knowledge? Note that most used tools in David's and my coding are _not_ native guile-procedures, but are defined in the LilyPond-source. Therefore I think the problem is more poor documentation of those lily-defined tools and/or the lack of commented code-examples using them. Could you confirm or is it something else preventing you from starting to code on your own? Btw, before I started using LilyPond I had no programming experience as well ;) Best, Harm
