Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

2009-02-04 Thread Hans Aberg
On 4 Feb 2009, at 16:44, Valentin Villenave wrote: After one week of this (BTW, there's an English phrase "eating your own dog food"; I'm not certain if it translates into other languages :), I'll begin another round of GOP recruitment. What is with you guys and dog food? There's also this phr

Re: Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

2009-02-04 Thread Maximilian Albert
> If the instructions are > unclear, misleading, or just plain wrong, so much the better -- > this will force us (by "us" I mean "the main developers") to fix > the CG. Just a few random nitpicks so far (I haven't read the whole thing, though): - The last word in 7.3 must read "ineffective" inste

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Valentin Villenave wrote: Definitely not! I have to say that this project wouldn't have even existed without LilyPond. I have learned LilyPond exclusively in order to publish this score, I have paid, developed or suggested quite a bunch of features I needed, etc. Finally, this wonderful communit

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David, > >>> The pdf file is 6.65 Mb! >> >> I'd probably be more impressed if I were not working in the company >> responsible for the PDFTeX bug reports concerning output files of more >> than 2GB size. > > The impressive part is not the absolute size of the PDF fil

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

2009-02-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:44:24PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: > 2009/2/4 Graham Percival : > > After one week of this (BTW, there's an English phrase "eating > > your own dog food"; I'm not certain if it translates into other > > languages :), I'll begin another round of GOP recruitment. > >

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, The pdf file is 6.65 Mb! I'd probably be more impressed if I were not working in the company responsible for the PDFTeX bug reports concerning output files of more than 2GB size. The impressive part is not the absolute size of the PDF file — as you note, there are many larger PDF

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread David Kastrup
"Trevor Daniels" writes: > Wow! This is a major work! It must be the largest LilyPond score > ever! I compiled the full score last night to peruse, and it looks > awesome. The pdf file is 6.65 Mb! I'd probably be more impressed if I were not working in the company responsible for the PDFTeX

Re: [frogs] Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

2009-02-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/4 Graham Percival : > After one week of this (BTW, there's an English phrase "eating > your own dog food"; I'm not certain if it translates into other > languages :), I'll begin another round of GOP recruitment. What is with you guys and dog food? There's also this phrase about dog's breakf

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/4 Graham Percival : > Great! We can start integrating some of those into lilypond > proper in the coming weeks. Definitely. I'll talk more about that later. > Glad to hear that the performance was a success, and glad to hear > that you have more time in the future. I have a lot of pent-u

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Trevor Daniels wrote: Valentin Villenave wrote Monday, February 02, 2009 10:49 PM Greetings everybody, Hi Valentin Wow! This is a major work! It must be the largest LilyPond score ever! I compiled the full score last night to peruse, and it looks awesome. The pdf file is 6.65 Mb! I ha

Discourse on the Consumption of Dog Food

2009-02-04 Thread Graham Percival
The CG now has fairly accurate docs for: - git - doc work - lsr work And a good chunk of info for Programming. At this point, I'd like to heavily encourage all Frogs and non-main developers (you can decide for yourself if you count as "main" :) to read and follow the relevant instructions in the

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:49:49PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: > > The license I have chosen wraps together the GPL for the source code > (this way you may use any function, macro, PostScript or even chunks Great! We can start integrating some of those into lilypond proper in the coming wee

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/4 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > Wouldn't it be nice to reference some of these great works from lilypond.org? > > [I guess it's a bit late for a concert announcement for The Foreign > Affair'] Actually, I already have something in mind for the LilyPond community platform I plan to launch alongside

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread David Kastrup
Valentin Villenave writes: > 2009/2/4 Trevor Daniels : > >> I'm not surprised! I can't imagine even transcribing a work of this >> magnitude, let alone composing it! > > Trust me, the LilyPonding was the fun part :-) All the more impressive that you did not get sidetracked to a degree where the

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Trevor Daniels wrote: It took quite a time to compile on my 2Gb laptop, partly because I inadvertently started two compiles of the full score simultaneously (I now realise!), which caused quite a bit of paging, as you might imagine. It should compile much faster on a 4Gb machine, or one at a

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op woensdag 04-02-2009 om 10:41 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Valentin Villenave: > > Wow! This is a major work! It must be the largest LilyPond score > > ever! I compiled the full score last night to peruse, and it looks > > awesome. The pdf file is 6.65 Mb! > > Thanks a lot, but this is no

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/4 Trevor Daniels : > Wow! This is a major work! It must be the largest LilyPond score > ever! I compiled the full score last night to peruse, and it looks > awesome. The pdf file is 6.65 Mb! Thanks a lot, but this is nothing compared to Nicolas' work :-) (I haven't had a chance to ha

Re: Good luck, Valentin

2009-02-04 Thread Trevor Daniels
Valentin Villenave wrote Monday, February 02, 2009 10:49 PM Greetings everybody, Hi Valentin Wow! This is a major work! It must be the largest LilyPond score ever! I compiled the full score last night to peruse, and it looks awesome. The pdf file is 6.65 Mb! I haven't yet been able to