Re: sponsorship offer: Lyric fixes (GSoC, etc.)

2015-11-22 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Agreed. Lilypond is still the best tool out there for my needs. I just > wish I could do more, and more beautiful, engraving with a smaller > investment of time and effort. (Isn’t that the eternal quest?) Well, there is the related quest

Re: sponsorship offer: Lyric fixes (GSoC, etc.)

2015-11-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jacques, > why is it that you have to struggle with the edition-engraver so much? I wouldn’t say I struggle *with* the edition-engraver (though it could be made easier to work with, I suppose…). I would say I *use* the edition-engraver to struggle with *Lilypond* (i.e., her faults and

Re: sponsorship offer: Lyric fixes (GSoC, etc.)

2015-11-21 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi Abraham, > >> Which issues specifically? > > If you look at , > you’ll see a list of other related issues. > > There have been more added since then. > > And I have a few new ones.

Re: sponsorship offer: Lyric fixes (GSoC, etc.)

2015-11-21 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, Thanks for the helpful response. > The problem with a bounty-driven approach is that it only works for > low-hanging fruit. You cannot pay every passersby interested in a > bounty to first start constructing his personal ladder. Agreed. I guess what I was hoping to do is pay a

Re: sponsorship offer: Lyric fixes (GSoC, etc.)

2015-11-21 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Kieren, > Le 19 nov. 2015 à 23:07, Kieren MacMillan a > écrit : > Depends on the precise issue/feature. I spent 8 hours [with the > edition-engraver] tweaking one measure of my current engraving (see >

Re: sponsorship offer: Lyric fixes (GSoC, etc.)

2015-11-21 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Kieren, Thanks for the explanation, it’s clear now! JM > Le 21 nov. 2015 à 15:25, Kieren MacMillan a > écrit : > > Hi Jacques, > >> why is it that you have to struggle with the edition-engraver so much? > > I wouldn’t say I struggle *with* the

sponsorship offer: Lyric fixes (GSoC, etc.)

2015-11-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hello all, I’m looking at my composition schedule for the next three years, and it includes a huge number of pieces with lyrics: two new stage musicals, plus a major revision of an existing one; a chamber opera; a concert-length song cycle; a concert-length work for orchestra, chorus, and

Re: sponsorship offer: Lyric fixes (GSoC, etc.)

2015-11-19 Thread tisimst
nd might be convinced > to contribute to the cause. > Which issues specifically? What kind of sponsorship we talking about? Best, Abraham -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/sponsorship-offer-Lyric-fixes-GSoC-etc-tp183811

Re: sponsorship offer: Lyric fixes (GSoC, etc.)

2015-11-19 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Abraham, > Which issues specifically? If you look at , you’ll see a list of other related issues. There have been more added since then. And I have a few new ones. (At least, I think they’re new… I’d better look through all 255 [!]