Wait wait wait, are you THE John Gourlay?As in "Spacing a Line of Music" 1987 John Gourlay? If so, you should be mentoring us, not the other way around! I think I've cited you in every paper I've ever written about notation. I'd love to help you get started. It is your algorithm at the heart of LilyPond's horizontal spacing engine, so that can be a place to start if you're up for it! Cheers,~Mike PS If you're not the John Gourlay of which I speak, my offer for help still stands!
Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: John Gourlay <j...@weathervanefarm.net> Date: 10/11/2015 5:36 PM (GMT+02:00) To: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Subject: Beginning contributor needs mentor I’m an aspiring LilyPond contributor who needs a mentor. How can I get one? So far I can compile LilyDev itself and the documentation, and I’m becoming familiar with git. I’m looking at the LilyPond Contributor’s Guide, but I have to admit that it’s a bit overwhelming. I’m a recently retired software engineer highly experienced with C++, less with Unix and open-source development, and not at all with Scheme. I’m not a musician, and I’ve used LilyPond only for toy examples so far. However, I once knew a lot about using computers to engrave music, as I was the principal investigator for the MusiCopy Project at Ohio State University in the 1980s. I’m sure that much has changed since then, but I’m pleased to say that LilyDev looks to be very much like what MusiCopy might have been if we’d had an opportunity to complete it. I’d like to help further the LilyPond project in some way. John Gourlay _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel