Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-15 Thread Paul Morris
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Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-15 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Morris writes: > Jan-Peter Voigt wrote >> I think Guile V2 is the most important issue regarding lilypond in general >> and especially with these thoughts. This would speed up the scheme-part of >> lilypond and ensure its inclusion in linux-distros. > > +1 > > And I suppose that any potent

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-15 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-04-11 21:58 GMT+02:00 Jan Nieuwenhuizen : > My hopes for Schikkers List (if any) are that it would aid in a guile > scheme to sneak the LilyPond dinosaur into the GUI age and thus help > keeping it's relevancy up. > > If something like Schikkers List would take-off that could trigger > a real

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-15 Thread Federico Bruni
2014-04-15 20:55 GMT+02:00 Paul Morris : > And I suppose that any potential future work on optimizing and speeding up > LilyPond compilation (which I think everyone agrees would be a good thing) > would make more sense after upgrading to Guile 2.0 (maybe even 2.2 ?). > > Does anyone know if we got

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-15 Thread Paul Morris
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Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-15 Thread Paul Morris
n. Just a quick follow up question: does Schikker's List use its own custom version of LilyPond (that has been optimized for partial compilation) or does it use standard LilyPond with external code providing for the partial compilation? Just curious... Thanks, -Paul -- View this message i

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-11 Thread Urs Liska
Am 12.04.2014 00:00, schrieb Francisco Vila: 2014-04-11 14:52 GMT+02:00 Jan-Peter Voigt : Yes, but lilypond is a text-based commandline tool that can easily be used with frescobaldi. So I would say, it's a good thing, if there are ways to make communication between lily and frescobaldi easier to

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-11 Thread Francisco Vila
2014-04-11 14:52 GMT+02:00 Jan-Peter Voigt : > Yes, but lilypond is a text-based commandline tool that can easily be used > with frescobaldi. So I would say, it's a good thing, if there are ways to > make communication between lily and frescobaldi easier to achieve cool > things. But the graphical

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-11 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Paul Morris writes: > On the question about possibilities for some kind of partial compilation, > I'd be curious to hear from Jan about his experience with Schikker's > List[1]. Do I remember correctly that it uses LilyPond to re-engrave only > part of the music, just the part that changed? Yes,

Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-11 Thread Łukasz Czerwiński
I agree with this freak called Janek ;) Actually I can hear there some reverberation of my own ideas ;) That's great that you want to make Lilypond more user-friendly and make the initial learning curve not that steep, but it the same time don't forget our you Ultimate Goal. That's awesome! :) All

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-11 Thread Paul Morris
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Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-11 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi there, Am 11.04.14 00:36, schrieb Urs Liska: Nevertheless I think that trying to improve usability _now_ _is_ a good thing. Yes it is, _but_ the question of _how_ to achieve the improved usibility is dangerous. We should focus on the unique characteristic of lilypond: It can't do graphical

Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-11 Thread David Kastrup
Joram Berger writes: >> Well, it's also in the market for dinosaur tools, namely text-based >> batch processing tools. > > If dinosaur means that they will die out as time passes, I don't > agree. Living fossils, then. The way of the horseshoe crab... > Considering the recent emphasis on web-

Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-11 Thread Joram Berger
> Well, it's also in the market for dinosaur tools, namely text-based > batch processing tools. If dinosaur means that they will die out as time passes, I don't agree. Considering the recent emphasis on web-techniques, I feel like some people actually start liking text-based approaches due to th

Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-11 Thread David Kastrup
"Phil Holmes" writes: > - Original Message - > From: Jan Warchoł > To: David Kastrup ; Mike Solomon ; Kieren MacMillan ; Han-Wen Nienhuys > Cc: LilyPond Development Team > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:23 PM > Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedb

Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-11 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Jan Warchoł To: David Kastrup ; Mike Solomon ; Kieren MacMillan ; Han-Wen Nienhuys Cc: LilyPond Development Team Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:23 PM Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom Look at what happened with Browser Wars

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-11 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 11.04.2014 00:51, schrieb David Kastrup: > >> I want to be able to draw up some score of mine in ten years and >> print new versions of it using the version of LilyPond I'll be using >> then. I've done a mediocre job of ensuring that regarding the >> stability of LilyPond'

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 11.04.2014 00:51, schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska writes: That's a difficult issue, and I think you both (Janek and David) are completely right with what you write. Nevertheless I think that trying to improve usability _now_ _is_ a good thing. A user of a (notation) software usually need

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-10 Thread Thomas Morley
2014-04-11 0:51 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup : [...] > A good part of my work is making it easier for others to do what they > want. [...] ... and let me say a big THANK YOU for that ... Best, Harm ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org htt

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-10 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > That's a difficult issue, and I think you both (Janek and David) are > completely right with what you write. > > Nevertheless I think that trying to improve usability _now_ _is_ a > good thing. > > A user of a (notation) software usually needs to finish stuff for a > concrete

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-10 Thread Urs Liska
That's a difficult issue, and I think you both (Janek and David) are completely right with what you write. Nevertheless I think that trying to improve usability _now_ _is_ a good thing. A user of a (notation) software usually needs to finish stuff for a concrete purpose. An engraver will pro

Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-10 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Warchoł writes: > Or, to look from other perspective: at current development speed, it > will take LilyPond somewhere between 10 and 100 years to reach the > stage where it does most of the things The Right Way (TM) (i.e. that > most of the ordinary scores are engraved 100% publication qualit

Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-10 Thread Jan Warchoł
Post Scriptum: after rereading my previous email, i see that it sounds as if i believed that implementing the Ultimate Goal (i.e. automatic engraving) and effectively improving "efficiency" were mutually exclusive. I don't think that's the case - in some cases the most effective (= with the bigges

Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-10 Thread Jan Warchoł
Hi, 2014-04-10 11:51 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup : > Urs Liska writes: > >> Am 09.04.2014 11:53, schrieb Jan Warchoł: >> >>> Concerning compilation speed - this is indeed a serious problem for >>> LilyPond, and i don't know which part of the code is most responsible for >>> this. Unfortunately i exp

Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-10 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 09.04.2014 11:53, schrieb Jan Warchoł: > >> Concerning compilation speed - this is indeed a serious problem for >> LilyPond, and i don't know which part of the code is most responsible for >> this. Unfortunately i expect that changing this would require at least one >> exp

Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.04.2014 11:53, schrieb Jan Warchoł: 2014-04-04 12:43 GMT+02:00 Urs Liska : (the handling of accidentals in the input for example: In Amadeus you write the "visible" notes, that is: the meaning of "d f a" depends on the currently active key signature). But some others look interesting, an

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-09 Thread Jan Warchoł
2014-04-04 12:43 GMT+02:00 Urs Liska : > (the > handling of accidentals in the input for example: In Amadeus you write the > "visible" notes, that is: the meaning of "d f a" depends on the currently > active key signature). But some others look interesting, and I'll post them > on bug-lilypond to

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-05 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila writes: > Urs, this is very interesting. My two thoughts below. >> >> Another aspect that I found very astonishing is compilation speed. Of course >> Amadeus files have to be compiled before the result is visible, and this can >> be automatically done upon save. I think Frescobaldi

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-05 Thread Francisco Vila
Urs, this is very interesting. My two thoughts below. 2014-04-04 12:43 GMT+02:00 Urs Liska : > ### > > The most interesting aspect of the meeting was that Henle's (only) in-house > engraver was present too, and this may become a fruitful contact. He is > using Amadeus, a Linux (!) program he bough

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi Urs, really interesting! I have just some short comments. Am 2014-04-04 um 16:43 schrieb Urs Liska : > treble F 4/4 is the equivalent to > > \clef treble > \key f \major > \time 4/4 > > (,9 ),10_a140140h30 > seems to be an equivalent to a \shape invocation > > Personally I think that L

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-04 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: >> This becomes particularly important when it comes to tweaking >> output. He wrote (my translation): "My first look at LilyPond [through >> my presentation and a follow-up email] shows similarities to Amadeus, >> but OTOH I have the suspicion that the operation

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-04 Thread Urs Liska
*Von:* David Kastrup *Gesendet:* Fri Apr 04 14:24:28 MESZ 2014 *An:* Urs Liska *CC:* LilyPond Development Team , "Jan Warchoł" *Betreff:* [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom Urs Liska writes

Partial compilation (was: Serious feedback and improvement headroom)

2014-04-04 Thread Urs Liska
Am 04.04.2014 15:04, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: What I would vote for very much is an option to recalculate the >>current system only, but with outputting the complete score anyway >>(however it may be determined what "current" is). This should work in >>many cases when a modification doesn't chang

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-04 Thread Urs Liska
Am 04.04.2014 15:04, schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt: I don't suggest any significant changes in our input syntax. But I >>want to point out that editing efficiency on that level_is_ an issue >>we should keep taking into account when it comes to professional >>work. >Current LilyPond input tools, edito

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-04 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Am 04.04.2014 14:24, schrieb David Kastrup: > Urs Liska writes: > >> The most interesting aspect of the meeting was that Henle's (only) >> in-house engraver was present too, and this may become a fruitful >> contact. He is using Amadeus, a Linux (!) program he bought for 20.000 >> Euro in 1988 >

Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-04 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > The most interesting aspect of the meeting was that Henle's (only) > in-house engraver was present too, and this may become a fruitful > contact. He is using Amadeus, a Linux (!) program he bought for 20.000 > Euro in 1988 Well, in 1988 there was no Euro. I presume that you

Serious feedback and improvement headroom

2014-04-04 Thread Urs Liska
Hi devels, I think I have some serious feedback to share, and it may lead to even more feedback and input. This week I had the opportunity to present myself, LilyPond and my "plain text workflows" topic to a significant group of the Henle staff. In order not to whet your appetite too much: C