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Re: [Notensatz im 21. Jahrhundert] edition-engraver session, Sunday Jan
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Kieren MacMillan |
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Re: [Notensatz im 21. Jahrhundert] edition-engraver session, Sunday Jan 19 @ 15:30 |
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Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:23:21 -0500 |
Hi Urs (et al.),
> This is a very good idea, and it is good you brought it up for
> discussion. I had a very similar plan with regard to the openLilyLib
> presentation on Sunday.
Excellent!
> I think the main target audience for the Sunday topics is people who
> are very much into LilyPond and its development anyway. Probably there
> are random participants, but anybody who stays for another night will
> very much have a quite specific reason to do so. Nobody will need to
> learn at that point what the edition-engraver or openLilyLib are
Well, with my 10 minutes, I’m still going to try not to leave someone "in the
dust"… =)
> Given what I wrote above I can imagine you could even reduce that to
> not more than 10 minutes by sending example files before.
I’ll do that.
> I would put “solving low-level technical issues” to the bottom of that
> list. This is something that may not be too suitable for discussion in
> the larger group since (I suspect) nobody except Jan-Peter will be able
> to discuss such issues spontaneously.
I suppose I mean more like J-P asking “Why, when I try to make the EE do X, it
does Y?”, and David K saying “Well, Lilypond sees X as Z, so you need to write
Z->X first” or whatever.
> What I think would be most helpful and making most of the “historic
> situation“ would be discussing ways how to get the edition-engraver
> integrated in LilyPond.
Yes. Would love that.
> Integration of the edition-engraver in Frescobaldi is another issue
> with additional implications. We won't directly support it until it is
> integrated in LilyPond.
Ah. It’s good to know the order of operations on that.
> However, there is one road that can be pursued,
> and that is Frescobaldi's new extension API.
That’s what I was thinking.
> What do you think?
I like the direction that day is heading in.
Thanks,
Kieren.
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