Re: Support accordion with standard bass

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:33:20 +0000 (UTC)
Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:

> David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Accordion with standard bass is not well-supported in Lilypond.
> 
> This is a nice description of accordion notation.  Such a discussion
> would normally take place on user, not on bugs.  Since I'm working on
> the Gmane interface, I can't easily forward it there.  You might want
> to.

Actually, this has been bounced around enough -- he initially sent
it to -devel, and was asked to send it here after some discussion.

It will be added to the google issue tracker, but then I'm afraid
it will probably be ignored for at least two years... but if we
ever get somebody interested in this, at least this info will be
there waiting for them.


> AFAICT, right now there is nobody who is willing to do sponsored
> work.  Han-Wen did most (all) of it in the past, and now he has a
> day-job, so his time with LilyPond is greatly reduced.
> 
> I hope I haven't discouraged you.  I think you'll find that it's not
> impossible to learn enough scheme to modify the notation in
> LilyPond.  It's my experience that the scheme code is the easiest to
> modify, once you get used to prefix notation and lots of
> parentheses.  And it's always great to get somebody new with the
> ability to hack on LilyPond.

I'll second this.  We have a critical shortage of developers right
now; if we doubled the amount of programmers, we would be able to
manage the current bug reports.  To add new features such as this,
we need *more* than double the amount of programming time.  I know
that learning scheme may seem daunting, but realistically
speaking, it's the only way this will get implemented.

Cheers,
- Graham