Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-23 Thread Michael Gerdau
> I suggest David, or one of the other project owners set up a Paypal > account that we can easily fire money off to from anywhere in the world, > anonymously. Paypal ? I would NEVER pay via Paypal unless it would be absolutely crucial for me and there were no other options. For once to my knowl

Re: quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-23 Thread Bernardo Barros
The first patch fixed this particular error, but I found futher errors and eventually stoped using LilyPond for this score (if I remember correctly, it has been 4 years...). I don't have this material here, since I gave up LilyPond for this project. Probably one can find it again just doing a scale

Re: bar checks and independent time signatures

2015-10-23 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michael Collins (mxcoll...@gmail.com): > A couple days ago, I described a problem with a piece for two staves in > independent time signatures.  After consulting this post, I moved the timing > translator and bar line engraver out of the score context and into the staff > context.  While th

Was: "My finances for working on LilyPond" - Development / Cryptocurrency

2015-10-23 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, I was also a bit shocked about David's post (makes me feel a bit guilty about our previous fights . .) but it might be worth mentioning this project: http://maidsafe.net http://maidsafe.org Although the main intention is in developing "Internet 2" - entirely based on encrypted,

Re: Updating library code

2015-10-23 Thread Paul Morris
> On Oct 23, 2015, at 6:43 AM, Urs Liska wrote: > > How are you dealing with keeping code working and consistent? One simple thing I do, FWIW, is to add a short prefix to all my own functions. For example, instead of "do-something", I'd call it "cn-do-something". That way it’s clear which fu

Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-23 Thread Chris Yate
> Well, this *something* seems easy to pin down: too few developers. So at > any given moment it is difficult to find someone who has the ability, > the interest, and spare time at the same moment. ... Could we expect to be paid for it? I don't expect to be paid for open-source work. In fact, doi

Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-23 Thread Ivan Kuznetsov
Maybe the Linux Foundation can help us set up a Lilypond foundation? Are there any lawyers on this list that can donate their time? Or perhaps Lilypond software can become sponsored by the Linux Foundation? N. Andrew Walsh wrote: > > ... a foundation ... > > It's a hassle getting the initial f

Re: Feature Requests

2015-10-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 24.10.2015 00:26, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 23.10.2015 20:31, Bernardo Barros wrote: Something I requested many years ago was the support for quarter-tone tablatures notation, which seems to work but is actually buggy at the moment, it generates wrong tablatures in strings with quarter-tones a

Feature Requests (was: Re: My finances for working on LilyPond)

2015-10-23 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 23.10.2015 20:31, Bernardo Barros wrote: Something I requested many years ago was the support for quarter-tone tablatures notation, which seems to work but is actually buggy at the moment, it generates wrong tablatures in strings with quarter-tones alterations etc. Did it receive some attentio

RE: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-23 Thread Javier Ruiz-Alma
David, I appreciate all you do to bring us a better LilyPond. As much as we all enjoy new feature releases, I also encourage you to continue with the important infrastructure work you often focus on, making the codebase more robust, maintainable, understandable. Glad to contribute! Javier ___

quarter-tone tablatures notation

2015-10-23 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Bernardo, I opened a new thread for this special problem. You wrote: " http://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/1741/ Something I requested many years ago was the support for quarter-tone tablatures notation, which seems to work but is actually buggy at the moment, it generates wrong tab

Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-23 Thread Bernardo Barros
http://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/1741/ On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote: > Dear all, > > I contributed before, maybe I will join it again, didn't know the > situation was so bad. > > Something I requested many years ago was the support for quarter-tone > tabla

Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-23 Thread Bernardo Barros
Dear all, I contributed before, maybe I will join it again, didn't know the situation was so bad. Something I requested many years ago was the support for quarter-tone tablatures notation, which seems to work but is actually buggy at the moment, it generates wrong tablatures in strings with quart

Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-23 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
If I can throw in a couple thoughts: My experience with open-source projects has usually been that they are, largely, labors of love. Almost none of them manage to run as commercial enterprises unless they somehow managed to capture a new market segment at some point (like Red Hat Linux trying the

Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-23 Thread Urs Liska
Am 23.10.2015 um 17:47 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hi Frederico, > >> In 6 years I've been following LilyPond I've never seen a bounty having >> success. > I’ve personally sponsored ten or so that have had success! =) n.b. Some may > have been more than six years ago, and many (most?) happene

Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Frederico, > In 6 years I've been following LilyPond I've never seen a bounty having > success. I’ve personally sponsored ten or so that have had success! =) n.b. Some may have been more than six years ago, and many (most?) happened “off-list”. However, I must admit that recently (e.g., i

Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-23 Thread Wols Lists
On 23/10/15 05:48, Jacques Menu wrote: > So, David, please send me your IBAN privately, and I’ll fix this problem on > my side. I know there's all this fuss about putting bank accounts on the web, but here (in the UK) we have bank accounts that can't originate transactions, and can't have an over

Re: Odd \partial

2015-10-23 Thread David Kastrup
Ralph Palmer writes: > Greetings - > > I have an issue with a \partial that I haven't encountered before. > > I'm running Ly 2.29.24 under Win 7 SP1 with Frescobaldi. > > The piece I'm trying to transcribe has a short measure at the beginning, > before a repeat (please see the attachment). I trie

Odd \partial

2015-10-23 Thread Ralph Palmer
Greetings - I have an issue with a \partial that I haven't encountered before. I'm running Ly 2.29.24 under Win 7 SP1 with Frescobaldi. The piece I'm trying to transcribe has a short measure at the beginning, before a repeat (please see the attachment). I tried using \partial 5/8 { fs8 g fs es f

Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-23 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno gio 22 ott 2015 alle 23:09, Urs Liska ha scritto: As to sponsoring individual features there is a tradition (?) of bounties. You can ask for a feature or report a bug that annoys you personally on the bug-lilypond mailing list and say that you are willing to spend X Dollars or Euro or

Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-23 Thread Robert Schmaus
I can only subscribe to what Simon (and all other responders) wrote. Like Urs pointed out, that the absence of any reports about the financial situation on the developer side left me under the impression that it wasn't really problematic. I can understand that it's not pleasant sending out req

Re: Updating library code

2015-10-23 Thread Michael Gerdau
[description of the problem of refactoring and code consistency in lilpond libs - snipped ] > So in essence what we need is a convert-ly-like tool for openLilyLib, > either as an independent tool or by somehow hooking into convert-ly > itself. Quite some time ago I opened an issue about this and w

Updating library code

2015-10-23 Thread Urs Liska
>From an openLilyLib perspective I have a question for all of you who maintain their personal LilyPond code libraries: How are you dealing with keeping code working and consistent? What I mean is: Syntax changes in LilyPond can be handled (mostly) with convert-ly. But what happens when a) a LilyPo

Re: partcombine and multi-measure rests

2015-10-23 Thread David Kastrup
David Wright writes: > Quoting Gilberto Agostinho (gilbertohasn...@gmail.com): >> Simon Albrecht-2 wrote >> > On 14.10.2015 20:41, Gilberto Agostinho wrote: >> >> \version "2.17.95" >> > >> > Just out of interest: what makes you still use that particular version? >> >> I don't, I actually use 2

Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

2015-10-23 Thread Kevin Tough
On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 03:10 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 22.10.2015 19:21, David Kastrup wrote: > > As you all know, my sole source of income are donations from happy > > LilyPond users. It would appear that LilyPond users have stopped > > being > > happy with my work. > > You must know that