Hi Joram, > I already wanted to submit a score to Mutopia using the edition > engraver. But I finally used ordinary tweaks because we were not sure > how future proof this is.
An excellent question/point. > 1. How stable is the interface of the edition engraver? Right now, not sufficiently for Mutopia’s needs, I would offer. However, I know that Jan-Peter is actively working on it, so things should settle down relatively soon. > Will the commands to use it change? See below. > 2. Will it always be in the current place of OpenLilyLib? See below. > 3. Might it get integrated into the core of LilyPond? This is the key question. Of course, I think it’s abolute must. Personally, I would assign it as high a priority as MusicXML import/export and other features with higher visibility/“wow factor”, given how mature its code is relative to those other items. If/when it is integrated into the core distribution, the functionality would likely increase and the syntax settle down more quickly, and be far more stable. However, I have no idea about the timeline or even interest for such a thing — that would be a question for Lily’s main code gatekeeper(s). > Because it does not make sense to improve the maintainability of a large > set of scores by relying on a functionality that has to be adapted > manually in future and thus produces more manual interventions. Agreed. Cheers, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
