Hi Andrew,
sorry that your investments into Dorico didn’t work out! It’s great to
have you back in the Pond :)
I have been thinking that it would be nice to invest more time into Lily
myself, but I don’t yet know whether/how/when I can make that happen.
Best, Simon
On 27/05/2022 10:24, Andrew Bernard wrote:
Hello All,
Having had to abandon the Openlilylib (OLL) work I took over from Urs
Liska, for various reasons, in the meantime I went over to Dorico
instead of Lilypond for my work. Having spent a lot of money on Dorico
(AUD$800+) and given it my best shot for more than year, it really
falls short for the modernist work that I do, dogmatically follows the
Gould rule book and does not let you override most of that (it's what
software people call an opinionated program), crashes often with the
latest release and they cant solve it and just remain silent, and
worse, the forum which I initially thought helpful is turning out to
be quite toxic and I get a lot of personal abuse. along with
deprecating comments about the music I work on. Consequently I have
binned Dorico as of yesterday and I am coming back to lilypond.
The upshot of that is that I suppose I should revive the OLL work.
I'll recreate the dedicated server I set up, recreate the Discourse
forum for discussion, and work on the git repository, then people can
collaboratively work together again and I can take pull requests and
so on.
I stalled initially a couple of years ago when I decided to totally
refactor the OLL github repostory, but now I think if we open it up
again as is and I work on that on the background which would be useful.
I'll pay for the server resources out of my own pocket, but provide a
Paypal link for donations for running costs (server, domain name, etc).
Andrew