Re: GPD: official shortest note in lilypond

[Graham Percival]

Mark Knoop wrote:
> This talk of 'reconsidering your notation' and 'reasonable shortest
> notes' is rather disturbing. Clearly, composers *do* use 128th (and
> shorter) notes, both beamed and unbeamed: therefore lilypond *should*
> support them.
>
> The musical notation should be chosen by the composer, not the tool. It
> is not the job of software writers to dictate what is or is not
> 'reasonable'.

When applied to notation, sure.  When applied to software, it *is* the 
job of project managers to dictate what is or is not `reasonable'.

Since we want the issue tracker to be complete, I have added this item 
as a feature request:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=508

However, it has the lowest possible priority.  Adding font symbols is a 
very hard task, and there's little demand for it.  If somebody wants to 
add this feature, fine -- but I really don't think this issue is as 
important as the other 163 unsolved issues.

I hate parroting "we don't have the resources..." all the time, but it's 
true.  And I think that transparency and honesty is better than the 
alternative.

Cheers,
- Graham