Am 15.02.2014 18:32, schrieb st...@linuxsuite.org:
hello,
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Unfortunately, i have very little time for lilypond now, so i cannot
do much more. If you'd like to start seriously working on this issue,
i'd be happy to provide some guidance, feedback and testing. I
estimate that anyone who wants to really fix this would have to spend
20-30 hours on researching tie shapes (i.e. reading my research),
10-20 hours to get an idea how lilypond thinks about ties now, 40-80
hours on writing new algorithms and then 20-60 hours on testing and
fixing corner cases. With that amount of effort, it should be
possible to create an almost-perfect tie formatting algorithms (i
mean, an algorithm that formats 99.9% ties correctly, as opposed to
50% success rate now).
I'm sorry if this sounds discouraging, but that's how it is.
I will select examples of ties and slurs from Goldberg on 2.18.0 and put
together a minimalist
exposition for discussion.
So, I guess the final solution is to do some programming work.
Hmm... what
if we paid someone to do the work? Can we raise money through kickstarter
for this kind of project?
Principally this is perfectly possible. The question is always to get
someone to do it. If you're interested in the subject you could well go
for it:
- determine how much funds would be needed and
- be sure that you could actually find someone who does it.
- then raise the Kickstarter project.
I think this would be a very welcome effort.
Best
Urs
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