Re: still lyrics

[Han-Wen]

address@hidden writes:
> >   1. Bug: the program doesn't work as advertised (documented). Fixing
> >      this involves some (usually small) mods to the existing code.
> > 
> >   2. Shortcoming: the program doesn't do something according to
> >      notation rules, but we never claimed it would. Fixing this
> >      involves (re)writing complete chunks of code, and is much more
> >      difficult than 1.
> 
> For example, I consider an accidental which is too far placed to the
> left as 2. -- even the horizontal order of accidentals fits into this
> category IMHO --, but extending a melismata line over a rest *is* a
> bug for me since it clearly violates typographical rules.  So I would
> rephrase rule 2 as
> 
>   2. Shortcoming: The program doesn't do something as beautiful as
>      typographical rules would ask for, but we never claimed it would.

Well, whatever. In many even "clearly violating typographical rules"
also calls for rewriting chunks of code.

> > Unfortunately, keeping/making lily bugfree in the sense of 1. is
> > already taking a lot of effort. If you want 2., then you will have
> > to have a lot of patience, or we need serious increase in
> > knowledgeable hackers/free time to hack.
> 
> I try to help here, but neither C++ nor Scheme is my favourite
> language, thus I will continue with proposals, algorithms etc.,
> reporting any peculiarity which you hopefully save for the future in
> case it can't be fixed right now.

They are neither for us. The C++-isms in the code have decreased a lot
over the time; perhaps you could take a new look.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden   |   http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen