Re: btw, articulation grouping

[Carl Sorensen]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 16:16, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:

> Actually, I am quite fresh on parsers (just developed a language), however, I 
> sense you are right in the idea of "starting slow"; however, although I have 
> some basic knowledge of scheme, I suppose I can only hack around 
> copying&pasting other's code for a while, as I am rusty ATM with that 
> language.

Most of the functionality of LilyPond is written in scheme.  If you
added stuff to the parser, it would still need to call scheme functions,
as scheme is all through LilyPond.  

The generally suggested route to make improvements to LilyPond is to
first figure out how to get the functionality, then get the syntax and
parsing implemented.

> 
> Of course, as lilypond target are much more musichans than hard core hackers 
> (ya know, that bunch of guys programming in lisp/scheme all day ;-) I suppose 
> that as version number get higher, scheme slang will be progressively 
> replaced with musichan friendly commands, am I right?
> 

I don't know that scheme slang will disappear.  But certainly improved
functionality can (and will) be added to the LilyPond "language".

Good luck with your improvements,

Carl