This is directed at people saying "I can't do anything to help..."
As per my comment #4 in http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1290 , we could really use an advanced user (or developer) to help with tweaking the default values for the new spacing code. REQUIRED - desire to get 2.14 out the door, and a few hours of spare time. I'd say 2-10 hours? - knowledge of tweaks (particularly "style sheets", aka \layout { \context {}}) stuff - knowledge of the old 2.12 spacing behaviour is a plus - familiarity with a moderately large body of scores (say, more than 10?) a plus. This could either come from your own work, or mutopia, or whatever. - familiarity with git changelog messages and the mailing list archives is a plus. NOT REQUIRED - no C++ or scheme knowledge required - ability to compile source from git is a plus, but not required. If you need a more recent version than 2.13.37, I'll compile+upload a special binary just for you Basically, just try compiling your scores (and any problematic scores reported by users) with the new spacing code. If/when something breaks, then make a \layout { \context{}} thing and change some overrides until it stops breaking. Whenever you add an override, check that it doesn't break any of your other scores. You'll want to do this as a separate \include file, of course. This will be a good test of the new spacing docs -- be warned that you might find incorrect or missing information in the currently-only docs. Well, you won't actually *find* missing information, of course. Otherwise it wouldn't be missing. :) make an honest attempt to figure out any problems by yourself, by looking at the git commit messages and/or emails on lilypond-devel, but if you can't figure out how to do something, it's fundamentally a problem of the docs, not you personally. So don't feel shy about complaining. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
