Re: Stepping down and moving on

2016-11-10 Thread Pierre Perol-Schneider
Hi David, Thank you for your hard work et nice helps. My very best wishes for the future. Cheers, Pierre 2016-11-10 8:58 GMT+01:00 Federico Bruni : > Il giorno mer 9 nov 2016 alle 18:09, David Kastrup ha > scritto: > >> Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! >> > > Thanks to yo

Re: Stepping down and moving on

2016-11-10 Thread Andrew Bernard
David, I wish you all the very best for your future endeavours. I thank you most sincerely for your immensely significant and important contribution to making lilypond the exceptional tool for engraving that it is. Having tried myself to study the source code and remaining baffled despite decades

Re: Stepping down and moving on

2016-11-10 Thread Benkő Pál
2016-11-10 11:46 GMT+01:00 Andrew Bernard : > David, > > I wish you all the very best for your future endeavours. I thank you most > sincerely for your immensely significant and important contribution to > making lilypond the exceptional tool for engraving that it is. Having tried > myself to study

Re: Stepping down and moving on

2016-11-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Dear David, Congratulations on the new position! I hope it brings you great personal satisfaction and financial security. Your programming and code-shepherding efforts in the ‘Pond have been nearly miraculous, and the codebase is immeasurably better for you having been on the team. Thank you s

Re: Stepping down and moving on

2016-11-10 Thread Mike Solomon
+1 many times over. Thank you for your excellent, creative, and vital work in helping LilyPond become the world’s best and most stable digital music engraver. Best of luck! ~Mike On 10 November 2016 at 13.23.24, Kieren MacMillan (kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca) wrote: Dear David, Congratulati

Is Anyone Working on a Better Tablature Algorithm?

2016-11-10 Thread christopher-heckman
In the past few years, a couple of algorithms have been released which do a better job for tablature. Since Lilypond uses one of the most naïve ones (not much different from the one that TuxGuitar uses), it might be time for an update. Is anyone working on this? I haven't been able to find any inf

Re: Is Anyone Working on a Better Tablature Algorithm?

2016-11-10 Thread David Kastrup
christopher-heckman writes: > In the past few years, a couple of algorithms have been released which > do a better job for tablature. Since Lilypond uses one of the most > naïve ones (not much different from the one that TuxGuitar uses), it > might be time for an update. > > Is anyone working on

Re: Stepping down and moving on

2016-11-10 Thread Noeck
Dear David, I have nothing to add to what others have written here. But I want to repeat it from my side: Thank you so much for your work on LilyPond! Thank you for new functionality, for cleaner code, for easier input syntax, for leading discussions with insightful contributions and LilyPond fact

Re: Is Anyone Working on a Better Tablature Algorithm?

2016-11-10 Thread christopher-heckman
David Kastrup wrote > christopher-heckman < > ccheckman@ > > writes: > >> In the past few years, a couple of algorithms have been released which >> do a better job for tablature. Since Lilypond uses one of the most >> naïve ones (not much different from the one that TuxGuitar uses), it >> might

Re: Is Anyone Working on a Better Tablature Algorithm?

2016-11-10 Thread David Kastrup
christopher-heckman writes: > David Kastrup wrote >> christopher-heckman < > >> ccheckman@ > >> > writes: >> >>> In the past few years, a couple of algorithms have been released which >>> do a better job for tablature. Since Lilypond uses one of the most >>> naïve ones (not much different from t

Re: Stepping down and moving on

2016-11-10 Thread Janek Warchoł
David, thank you for all your work and good luck with the new job! Can you share the name of the company and what you will be working on? All the best, Janek 2016-11-09 9:09 GMT-08:00 David Kastrup : > > Hi folks and team, > > while I haven't really occupied an official function in LilyPond > d

Re: Is Anyone Working on a Better Tablature Algorithm?

2016-11-10 Thread christopher-heckman
David Kastrup wrote > christopher-heckman < > ccheckman@ > > writes: > >> David Kastrup wrote >>> >>> Personally I think there should be a _translator_ doing the string/fret >>> assignment and recording it into the music expression. >>> >>> Why? >>> >>> This translator can keep context and, f