Re: Flow of Information through the Lilypond Source

[Mats Bengtsson]

Probably the best starting point for you is the master thesis
by Erik Sandberg, available at http://lilypond.org/web/about/pubs

  /Mats

John Mangual wrote:
> Can someone walk me through how the "hello world" of Lilypond  - 
> probably \relative c { a b c d e f g} - gets processed?  Maybe the end 
> product could be a short tutorial for interested coders following the 
> flow of information from the Scheme-esque code we put in a text editor 
> to the final postscript and gif. 
>
> I am pretty comfortable in Python and use Lilypond actively.  I use 
> both Windox XP and sometimes Kubuntu.  My goal is to try my hand at 
> some of the low and medium priority bugs such as this one 
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=704&start=200 
> <http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=704&start=200>
>
> - John
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