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Janek Warchoł-2 wrote > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:25 AM, SoundsFromSound > < > soundsfromsound@ > > wrote: >> I'll keep you posted for sure. Say, do you suppose that this boxed >> notation >> utility could be implemented sooner (and perhaps with more powerful >> features) in LilyPond if funding/support increased? > > Well, i think the situation is like this: > - increasing continouous financial support (e.g. for David) has a > positive effect on lily development in general, but i think that the > difference wrt/ boxed notation itself wouldn't be noticeable (i.e. > don't expect that if you give more money to David Kastrup he'll go and > implement this soon), > >>>> I see. > > - contributing to Lily yourself (i.e. writing code, or documentation, > or helping with organizing things - you don't have to be a programmer > to help) also has a positive effect on lily development in general, > but the difference wrt/ implementing boxed notation won't be > noticeable unless you start working on boxed notation itself, > >>>> I wish I could contribute more to the notation programming itself but >>>> I'm not a strong programmer (unless you count OOP like MaxMSP, etc) - >>>> so that really isn't an option for me. > > > - you can pay one of the experienced developers to implement > specifically this feature. But that would probably be expensive, as > programming work is expensive in general. You'll probably need to > find several other people willing to pay for this. > >>>> I'm confused, I thought David / > was / > a developer - no? You said paying him would not be a likely path to seeing > this boxed notation implemented further, but rather just to help LilyPond > in general, progress as software. > > How would one go about getting an "estimate" with regards to requests like > this one? Thank you for clarifying this for me, because up until this > point, I thought the boxed notation situation was in its current state > because it simply was not possible (from a coding standpoint or something) > - not a matter of time/funding/desire for modern notation possibilities. > > Thanks! > > Ben > > > cheers, > Janek > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@ > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ----- composer | sound designer -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Aleatoric-modern-notation-tp18113p136304.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
