From: Hans <han...@zo...> - 2005-04-24 20:36:47
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I hope Lilypond export will remain a feature of RG. I, for one, like Lilypond a lot and more than often I export from RG to Lilypond before printing, especially if I need to print scores for use by other people. --Hans Silvan wrote: >On Saturday 23 April 2005 06:11 am, dragon23dragon wrote: > > > >>Is there, (or is there going to be) an update to thre lilypond export tool >>in CVS that suports lilypond-2.4.6 ? >> >> > >Probably as soon as we get someone on the developer side who's really excited >about Lilypond export, or when the rest of us run out of hundreds of more >interesting things to do. > >I was the last person to get excited about the Lilypond export, and I made a >number of real improvements. Chris followed up a bit later to bring my stuff >up to whatever the then new Lilypond version's standard was. Then I went >back in and did some piddly little something somewhere to try to fix some >quirk. > >Since then, perhaps three people have expressed any interest, and I don't >think any of them sounded happy. > >I think if the Lilypond export is to amount to anything really useful, it >needs a champion. I'm no longer that champion. I just don't care anymore, >frankly. The notation editor prints well enough for me, and the Lilypond >export was always extremely quirky in every real-world test I threw at it. >It's very delicate code, easily broken, and it often generates garbage. > >The whole experience was not terribly fulfilling, I must say, and I'm glad to >be rid of it. I think, ideologically, we're still very much in favor of >having a working Lilypond export. We just need a champion who cares, and who >has time for tons of fiddling. > > > |