Re: lilypond and editors

[Valentin Villenave]

Thank you for your answer Bertalan.

I'm CCing to the list because it is somehow related to the topic.

> Valentin Villenave írta:
> > Hi Bertalan,
> >
> > I would like to know how much localized is LilyPondTool, and if anyone
> > can help you translating it. I can, for instance, contribute to
> > correct the French language file, and since there is a French mailing
> > list now, I could help transmitting your announcements or whatever...
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > V.Villenave.

2006/12/8, Bertalan Fodor <address@hidden>:
> Well, LilyPondTool is not localized at all. AFAIK jEdit is not either.
> First you we need LilyPond to write its error messages with an error
> code, to let us interpret independently of language.
> Second, I must create some property files that can be localized. This
> can be a semi-automatic process, so if you think there would be many
> French users, I can do it. But that will work only for the LilyPondTool
> parts, and not the jEdit core.


I had already seen somewhere jEdit wasn't localized and wasn't ever
going to be, I just didn't remember it.

As a matter of fact, jEdit is a bit weak on a few points, and this one
of those; another one is, in my opinion, that its extremely heavy and
slow, even on a Linux machine, maybe due to its Java origins, I don't
know; the fact is, every time I use it I can't help remember older
times when I was running *some* proprietary heavy notation software
under *some* proprietary heavy Operating System.

However, I find (and so do many of us) LilyPondTool is the best way to
typeset LilyPond code, particularly for newbies, and I wouldn't have
jEdit installed at all otherwise. So to my mind, this is LilyTool's
only weakness.

So, concerning translation, I would be glad to contribute. If
LilyTool's localization is easy to do, just tell me how it can be
done, or please send a language file (if there's any) so I can start
to work on it, and maybe post it on the French mailing list. I think
it's worth doing it, because once again I find LilyPondTool great.

I just hope that maybe, in a few years (months ?), _somebody_ will be
able to make it standalone.

Maybe yourself, who knows... :)