Hello, Sometimes (frequently enough, as I'm kind of an efficient LilyPond preacher), one of my pupils brings me his laptop and proudly tells me "look Valentin, I've installed LilyPond; now please show me how to use it!"
(yeah, I told them to call me "Master", but, you know...) In such cases, where I find myself in front of an XP box with *no* text editor but notepad.exe, it's always a bit hard to show my pupils the beauty of LilyPond, and since there's no Wifi in the Conservatory, I can't download Java and jEdit (which I would otherwise do). I often wish there were some very basic syntax highlighting and indenting features in LilyPond's integrated notepad (at least the win32 version); though I'm not a programmer, I imagine this would be rather simple to implement, maybe by using some code from other opensource win32 editors like Notepad++ or Notepad2 (which is based on Scintilla), or from scratch. So, as I guess nobody else will be interested in working on such "collateral" win32-only task, I'm willing to give it a try myself, even if I might very well not be able to come up with anything at the end. I tried to find the sources for the current "lilypad" application, but couldn't find anything in git. Where can I find it? Would it be OK for me to modify it on my own? And would it be OK to redistribute (at least, to my pupils) such a modified LilyPond version, bundled with a different editor, so that they can have immediate access to a decent editor by clicking on the LilyPond desktop-icon-shortcut thing? (provided I would *only* use GPL code, with full credits and everything, of course) Regards, Valentin _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
