Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread Urs Liska
Welcome to LilyPond and this list, John, Am 10.11.2015 um 16:36 schrieb John Gourlay: > I’m an aspiring LilyPond contributor who needs a mentor. How can I get one? I'm not sure you can "get one" here because there are simply too few developers around. But if you continue asking questions on this

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Hello John! > I’m a recently retired software engineer highly experienced with > C++, less with Unix and open-source development, and not at all with > Scheme. Assuming that you are a Windows guy: It would be great if you could make lilypond compile on that platform! There are also some rough

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread James
Hello Werner, On 10/11/15 16:10, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Hello John! > > >> I’m a recently retired software engineer highly experienced with >> C++, less with Unix and open-source development, and not at all with >> Scheme. > Assuming that you are a Windows guy: It would be great if you could >

RE: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread Mike Solomon
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

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread James
:) On 10/11/15 15:53, Mike Solomon wrote: > > 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. We also cite

Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread John Gourlay
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

PATCHES: Countdown for November 13th 2015

2015-11-10 Thread James
Hello, Here is the current patch countdown list. The next countdown will be on November 13th PUSH: 4653 French beam ending on rest causes segfault - David Kastrup https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4653/ http://codereview.appspot.com/274280043 4504 Revert

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 10.11.2015 16:36, John Gourlay wrote: 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 fear that you may not get around learning some scheme, since our C++ source is quite interlinked with

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.11.2015 um 21:47 schrieb John Gourlay: > Mike, > > Yes, I am the spacing-a-line-of-music John Gourlay, pleased that my early > contributions have turned out to be useful. I’ve been out of the loop for > about 30 years, however, so it won’t happen that I’ll be doing any mentoring >

Re: Implement make-bow-stencil, make-tie-stencil for use in markup-commands undertie and overtie (issue 270640043 by thomasmorle...@gmail.com)

2015-11-10 Thread thomasmorley65
On 2015/11/08 23:54:37, dak wrote: On 2015/11/08 23:22:51, thomasmorley651 wrote: > https://codereview.appspot.com/270640043/diff/20001/scm/stencil.scm > File scm/stencil.scm (right): > > https://codereview.appspot.com/270640043/diff/20001/scm/stencil.scm#newcode88 > scm/stencil.scm:88: (sqrt

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread John Gourlay
Mike, Yes, I am the spacing-a-line-of-music John Gourlay, pleased that my early contributions have turned out to be useful. I’ve been out of the loop for about 30 years, however, so it won’t happen that I’ll be doing any mentoring myself for some time. Indeed I’ve been working in Windows for

Re: Implement make-bow-stencil, make-tie-stencil for use in markup-commands undertie and overtie (issue 270640043 by thomasmorle...@gmail.com)

2015-11-10 Thread dak
https://codereview.appspot.com/270640043/diff/40001/scm/stencil.scm File scm/stencil.scm (right): https://codereview.appspot.com/270640043/diff/40001/scm/stencil.scm#newcode73 scm/stencil.scm:73: (width (- (car stop) (car start))) I'd not use `width' (and `height') here but `dx' and `dy': the

Re: Beginning contributor needs mentor

2015-11-10 Thread Mike Solomon
I'll scour the tracker - there is a bit of low hanging fruit in the beautifying department that is nice because it will not be too sprawling and will result in immediately perceptible visual improvements. ~Mike Sent from my Samsung device Original message From: John

[feature-request] optional duration for temporary

2015-11-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, Rather than having to \revert an \override (or set of \override-s), might it be possible to set an optional duration for which the override would be in effect? e.g. \temporary #’(10 1/8) \override LyricText.extra-offset = #’(0 . -1) would lower the LyricText(s) for exactly 10