Welcome back, and thank you. Having read your account of your situation, and knowing nothing else about your circumstances or condition, I hope we'll have you around with us for a good, long while yet.
On Fri, 27 May 2022, 17:27 Andrew Bernard, <andrew.bern...@mailbox.org> wrote: > Hello All, > > Having had to abandon the Openlilylib (OLL) work I took over from Urs > Liska, for various reasons, in the meantime I went over to Dorico > instead of Lilypond for my work. Having spent a lot of money on Dorico > (AUD$800+) and given it my best shot for more than year, it really falls > short for the modernist work that I do, dogmatically follows the Gould > rule book and does not let you override most of that (it's what software > people call an opinionated program), crashes often with the latest > release and they cant solve it and just remain silent, and worse, the > forum which I initially thought helpful is turning out to be quite toxic > and I get a lot of personal abuse. along with deprecating comments about > the music I work on. Consequently I have binned Dorico as of yesterday > and I am coming back to lilypond. > > The upshot of that is that I suppose I should revive the OLL work. I'll > recreate the dedicated server I set up, recreate the Discourse forum for > discussion, and work on the git repository, then people can > collaboratively work together again and I can take pull requests and so on. > > I stalled initially a couple of years ago when I decided to totally > refactor the OLL github repostory, but now I think if we open it up > again as is and I work on that on the background which would be useful. > > I'll pay for the server resources out of my own pocket, but provide a > Paypal link for donations for running costs (server, domain name, etc). > > Andrew > > > >
