Re: Sponsoring lilypond development Was Re: Score parts: instrument and duration

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Erik Sandberg wrote:
> This makes it hard for us to steal the SCORE experts right now. I think it's 
> too difficult to do this kind of tweaks in lilypond right now, and the tweaks 
> will break after each new version. (however, I don't know enough about 

That's not true. However, I don't guarantee that they won't break - 
which is something different. If you need to be sure of keeping your 
tweaks, you have to keep around the version of lily that you used to 
make the piece.

> As you say, it could be useful to start a constructive dialogue with the SCORE 
> folks, to 
> (a) see what it would require (in terms of improved program design) to make 
> them join us.
> (b) get inspiration from their engraving expertise.

I think it should be the other way around. We need some samples that 
work flawlessly in Lily, but require a huge amount of effort in SCORE. 
That will persuade them to try Lily. Then, they can sponsor me for 
adding what's still missing :-)

Of course, I might have a different perspective from you :-)

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