On Friday 06 June 2003 06:48 am, Richard Bown wrote: > Ok, then shall we do it? This is something we should schedule for 1.0. > It'd also be nice to integrate the lilypond printing angle a bit more > maybe? I know it's there but I don't know how to use it really.
I was shooting for that when I first started hacking on that code, but after months of effort, it's nowhere close to working well enough to be a fire-and-forget kind of thing that's reliable enough to use in such a fashion. This export filter is very similar to a translation program. Have you filtered a document through Babelfish lately? What you get out is usually vaguely comprehensible in a twisted sort of way, but it's far from perfect. I'd say the Lilypond filter generally does a much better job than that, and it's even useful occasionally, under tightly controlled circumstances, but I have come to be of the opinion (Hans is welcome to step in and disagree here) that using Lilypond as a hands-free print filter is simply setting the bar impossibly high. Particularly once the vagaries of parallel development are taken into consideration. In any event, I think it's definitely desirable and necessary to channel effort into further improving our native print facility. After Chris's last go at that, it works rather well. It's not as pretty as Lilypond, but it looks decent, and at least it prints what's on the damn screen time after time. -- Michael McIntyre USDA zone 6b in SW VA, USA Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Druid ----------[ registered Linux user #243621 ]--------- http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/index.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
