Re: GSoC 2017

[ul]

Hello Matthew,

thank you for your interest in LilyPond!

Am 2017-03-02 07:02, schrieb Matthew Sedam:
> Hello everyone!
>
> My name is Matthew Sedam, and I am interested in LillyPond for Google
> Summer of Code 2017. I am particularly interested in the "Adopt the 
> SMuFL
> music font encoding standard" idea.

This would be a good thing, because it would promote LilyPond one step 
further towards fully adhering to common standards.

> I would like to know what progress, if
> any, has been done on this project.

I must admit the progress to this mainly is that it is by now generally 
accepted to be a good idea (when SMuFL was initially announced there had 
been some reservations against the idea of supporting it), and that we 
put it onto our GSoC ideas page.
In addition there has been some investigation into the matter of 
notation font handling, which is mainly visible through the fact that 
LilyPond now *does* natively support the use of alternative fonts, so a 
few people do know something about it.

> I also would appreciate any help
> defining this project so I can write an effective proposal. I am new to
> LillyPond development, but I have used the program many years ago.

The first thing will be to get an idea about what happens when LilyPond 
uses glyphs from the notation font. How does it locate the font, how 
does it identify the glyph to choose? And on the other side, how is the 
notation font created during LilyPond's build process? I think this is 
what you'll want to go for first, as a basis to shape a project 
description.

I assume that Werner Lemberg and Abraham Lee will have to say some more 
on the technical parts of this project

Best wishes
Urs


> Any help would be appreciated! I am really excited about working on
> LillyPond!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Matthew Sedam
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