On Thu, 14 May 2026, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > As someone who has false-started countless times on becoming a real > contributor to the code-base, I can personally attest to how remarkable it > is that *anything* is part of “off-the-shelf Lilypond”. What is in there is > a testament to the hard work, creativity, persistence, and generosity of > those who actually get patches up and through the process — for which I am > deeply grateful. >
As someone who can’t even really write a simple Scheme function without writing to this list for help, I too am deeply grateful for all the work that has gone into LilyPond over the years thanks to people with skills and knowledge that I do not have! > I’d vote to merge this functionality into LilyPond. > > +1 > But if votes were all it took, Lilypond would Do All Things For All > People™. ;) > > > If that’s not possible, at least we should make Jean and Werner’s good > work an “official” snippet and add in or near NR 9.1.8 a link to the > official snippet. > > That seems like it should be an easy add — let’s pursue that as a good > first step. > What I can’t contribute in programming I can contribute in English prose and coded examples in LilyPond, so I’ll happily raise my hand to help in those ways (writing documentation, coding snippets) for Magnetic lyrics, if I can be useful. Werner, Jean, any others involved: Please call on me if I can help here!
