David, Thanks for your comments, and for thinking carefully about your LilyPond use. I'm not sure exactly what you hoped to have happen as a result of this post, so it's difficult for me to respond. However, I do feel like I need to clear up one point you made:
On 8/11/09 7:37 PM, "David Fedoruk" <david.fedo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Lilypond isn't perfect, recently the way Lilypond works with Jazz chords and > lead sheets has undergone drastic change. This was a matter of those who knew > something some of the developers did not know or understand taking the time to > explain how things worked in real life. It is difficult to tell an expert that > he may be wrong about something. Choosing words carefully gets good results, > rants almost never get the required results. > I disagree that the drastic changes in Jazz chords and lead sheets is due to those who knew something explaining to the developers. In my opinion, the drastic changes in Jazz chords and lead sheets is due to people who wanted to improve things getting involved in making them happen: 1) Improved FretBoards context: Carl Sorensen wanted it and went after it, including transposable fret diagrams and N.C. symbol 2) Good chord-name-exceptions lists: Rick Hansen and others provided them to the list 3) Transposable lyric chord names: Tao Cumplido decided to create them 4) Improved tablature: Marc Hohl got it implemented 5) Improved chord namer: Thomas Morgan is working on it, and I expect great results soon I expect there are more improvements that I haven't included here, but the key issue is that *somebody* decided they wanted it badly enough to figure out a way to do it. LilyPond progress is not limited by the amount the developers know; it's limited by the amount of time the developers have available to work on it. Every developer has a TODO list that's longer than they have time to deal with, so developers work on what they're interested in. And getting development done in some area you care about really means getting some developer who cares about it as well. This doesn't mean that non-developers shouldn't ask for features. Feature requests are always helpful. But the best way to get features implemented is to try to get working on them yourself and then ask for help. Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
