Re: Reasons why a LilyPond-to-MEI conversion should be developed

[David Kastrup]

Paul Morris <address@hidden> writes:

>> On Oct 24, 2015, at 3:02 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> The latest is that the project is over and I have a dump of stuff I need
>> to integrate into LilyPond before it may be useful.  My motivation to do
>> that is so-so as I've not yet seen a cent of the tutor's money yet (and
>> no mention whatsoever that there is any intent of or procedure for a
>> payout) for the considerable work I put in so far, and there does not
>> seem much of a point to ask for it when the code is not yet in LilyPond.
>> 
>> So it will likely arrive sometime next year.  It's just a starting
>> point, anyway, but it uses decidedly different techniques than current
>> converters.
>
> Glad to hear that it resulted in code that can be integrated into
> LilyPond, moving things further in this direction.  Sorry to hear that
> google has not paid you yet…  it’s not fair for them to not uphold
> their end of the deal.

Google does not pay the tutors.  They hand the money to the tutoring
organization, in this case GNU, and the default for GNU is to keep it.
A few years ago that was the only possibility.  Purportedly that has
changed, but the information where to apply has not made it past me.
Presumably I need to ask the organizators.

>> Anybody wanting to get that dump and a sketch of how to integrate it
>> is welcome.  It's Scheme-only work requiring digging through
>> LilyPond's own Scheme internals for existing hooks in order to
>> integrate it into a command line utility.
>
> Would it make sense to start an issue for this with a link to the dump
> or a zip file of it?

Maybe.  It's somewhat disorganized right now.  But it won't become more
organized by me sitting on it.

-- 
David Kastrup