Re: Appreciation / Financial support

[Tim McNamara]

On May 29, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Tim Slattery wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Tim McNamara <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> I was thinking about simplification like being able to put in a coda with 
>> \coda or a segno with \segno instead of things like
>> 
>>  \mark \markup { \musicglyph #"scripts.segno" }
>> 
>> and so on.  The more complicated the incantations are, the easier it is to 
>> get them wrong the harder it is to debug and the longer it takes to write.
> 
> A lot of the complexity is because the scripting language is Scheme, a
> variant of LISP. Even for somebody like me, who has been writing
> programs for over 40 years, that syntax can be extremely bizarre.


And terrifying if one has parenthetophobia.