Re: GSoC 2016 - GNU website listing

2016-02-29 Thread Paul Morris
> On Jan 28, 2016, at 3:02 PM, Paul Morris wrote: > > LGTM, so that would make it: (I changed “The user describes” to “Users > describe”, although either is fine with me.) > > LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the > highest-quality sheet music possible. Users describ

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-02-04 Thread Paul Morris
Hi Urs, > On Feb 4, 2016, at 4:20 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > Am 27.01.2016 um 02:37 schrieb Paul Morris: >> While we’re at it, one thing I’ve thought about is simplifying vertical >> spacing changes. Basically something like this[1] but possibly integrated >> into LilyPond. One i

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-02-04 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Paul, Am 27.01.2016 um 02:37 schrieb Paul Morris: > While we’re at it, one thing I’ve thought about is simplifying vertical > spacing changes. Basically something like this[1] but possibly integrated > into LilyPond. One idea is that alongside padding, minimum-distance, and > basic-distanc

Re: GSoC 2016 - GNU website listing

2016-01-28 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Morris writes: >> On Jan 28, 2016, at 3:36 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Ouch. LilyPond is very dissimilar from TeX regarding a whole lot of >> things but certainly in the context of a call for programmers. > > […] > >> Python is just used for some scripting but not in the core applica

Re: GSoC 2016 - GNU website listing

2016-01-28 Thread Paul Morris
> On Jan 28, 2016, at 3:36 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > > Ouch. LilyPond is very dissimilar from TeX regarding a whole lot of > things but certainly in the context of a call for programmers. […] > Python is just used for some scripting but not in the core application. Good points. We could j

Re: GSoC 2016 - GNU website listing

2016-01-28 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Morris writes: > Possibly we could add a description like this (from the 2012 GNU GSoC page): > > LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the > highest-quality sheet music possible. It is somewhat similar to TeX — Ouch. LilyPond is very dissimilar from TeX regarding a w

Re: GSoC 2016 - GNU website listing

2016-01-27 Thread Mike Solomon
Liska Date: 27/01/2016 10:12 PM (GMT+02:00) To: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: GSoC 2016 - GNU website listing Am 27.01.2016 um 21:02 schrieb Paul Morris: > So students can find us as one of the GNU projects, we should get LilyPond > listed on the GNU GSoC suggestions page.  Here’s

Re: GSoC 2016 - GNU website listing

2016-01-27 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27.01.2016 um 21:02 schrieb Paul Morris: > So students can find us as one of the GNU projects, we should get LilyPond > listed on the GNU GSoC suggestions page. Here’s the one for last summer: > http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2015.html > > Seems we should just have a listin

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-01-27 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 27. Januar 2016 02:37:17 MEZ, schrieb Paul Morris : > >>Did I understand correctly that something like a "CTAN for LilyPond” >>(CLAN) is already in the works and so wouldn’t be good for a GSoC >>project? > > I understood that David had doubts about it even before I mentione

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-01-26 Thread Urs Liska
I forgot to mention that I asked those currently listed as mentors. I'll report when all have responded. -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://list

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-01-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 27. Januar 2016 02:37:17 MEZ, schrieb Paul Morris : >> On Jan 26, 2016, at 5:24 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> >>> So my question could be rephrased: Would it be acceptable to suggest >a >>> GSoC project if such an external library is *not* going to be >included >>> in LilyPond directly? With r

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-01-26 Thread Paul Morris
> On Jan 26, 2016, at 5:24 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> So my question could be rephrased: Would it be acceptable to suggest a >> GSoC project if such an external library is *not* going to be included >> in LilyPond directly? With regard to the project I'm convinced that >> this would work out i

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-01-26 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 26.01.2016 um 10:21 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Urs Liska writes: >> >> Personally I don't think "integrating ScholarLY" with LilyPond is the >> right course: it is a rather special-purpose case. I think the question >> we should rather solve is how to modify LilyPond and i

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-01-26 Thread Urs Liska
Am 26.01.2016 um 10:21 schrieb David Kastrup: > Urs Liska writes: > >> Would it be an acceptable/interesting project to bring the ScholarLY >> library to a finished state and (optionally) integrate it with >> LilyPond? > Personally I don't think "integrating ScholarLY" with LilyPond is the > rig

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-01-26 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Would it be an acceptable/interesting project to bring the ScholarLY > library to a finished state and (optionally) integrate it with > LilyPond? Personally I don't think "integrating ScholarLY" with LilyPond is the right course: it is a rather special-purpose case. I think

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-01-26 Thread Urs Liska
Would it be an acceptable/interesting project to bring the ScholarLY library to a finished state and (optionally) integrate it with LilyPond? As far as I'm concerned and considering the feedback from users this approach to annotating items in the score is very fruitful. However, there are so many

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-01-23 Thread Paul Morris
Hi John, > On Jan 22, 2016, at 9:01 PM, John Gourlay wrote: > > I’ve started working on incorporating the musicxml2ly enhancements from > Philomelos into LilyPond. Glad to hear it! > Is this what you’re referring to when you say “there’s still work to do on > MusicXML import/export”? Ah, no

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-01-22 Thread John Gourlay
Paul, I’ve started working on incorporating the musicxml2ly enhancements from Philomelos into LilyPond. Is this what you’re referring to when you say “there’s still work to do on MusicXML import/export”? I don’t have a patch to submit yet, but should I put an entry in the SourceForge LilyIssues

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-01-22 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Morris writes: >> On Jan 21, 2016, at 11:02 AM, Urs Liska wrote: >> >> But I think *now* is the time to start thinking about possible projects >> for this instead of waiting for some students to show up out of the blue. >> >> What would be a suitable approach? >> >> * Thinking about a n

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-01-21 Thread Paul Morris
> On Jan 21, 2016, at 11:02 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > > But I think *now* is the time to start thinking about possible projects > for this instead of waiting for some students to show up out of the blue. > > What would be a suitable approach? > > * Thinking about a number of tasks that >- wou