Re: Help

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 20/11/2021 à 17:57, Leonid Hrabovsky a écrit :
> Agreed! Nevetheless, in my modest opinion, the easiness of modern 
> notation in LilyPond would be greatly upgraded if one might take the 
> book of Edgard Karkoschka on the XX century notation and check out 
> most common features used by all composers discussed in this very 
> informative book - it will turn out that there are 5-6 such common 
> features (like frame or proportional notation, some few lines and 
> symbols) that might be easily added to the whole pool.

Note that proportional notation is supported. See

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/proportional-notation


> In comparison to enormously rich resources devoted in documentation to 
> ancient and medieval notation (circa 100 noteheads only!), it looks 
> like the needs of modern composers are somehow overlooked...


As Werner said. Please understand that LilyPond
development does not happen on the basis of
more or less people needing a certain feature
but on the availability of just one interested
person who can invest the work.

Best regards,
Jean