Re: Naming midi files

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 17/02/2022 à 13:25, Lukas-Fabian Moser a écrit :
> Folks,
>
> Am 17.02.22 um 11:48 schrieb Xavier Scheuer:
> > > If I have a book that is structured something like below, then LP
> > > produces two midi files: foo.midi and foo-1.midi.
> > >
> > > Is there a way I can coerce the names into "bar.midi" and "baz.midi"
> > > within LP? Or is this something best down externally?
> >
> > Works for books (bookOutputName), not for bookpart or score.
> >
> > There is a feature request to implement it (and some people offered 
> > $100 and 30€ bounty for this enhancement).
> > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/3154
>
> Ian Hulin started working on that issue, but it seems there's sad news 
> that never actually reached the LilyPond community (at least I 
> couldn't find a mention on either -user or -devel):
>
> https://www.justgiving.com/remember/174876/Ian-Hulin
>
> I didn't know him personally, but judging from 
> https://github.com/ian-hulin, it seems that page is for the same Ian 
> Hulin who contributed to LilyPond. His last messages on -devel are 
> from October 2014.


(devel-only reply)

In the archives I read from David in 2016:

  “I cannot exactly blame Ian Hulin for stopping to
  contribute (and I don't actually know whether he is
  still alive).”

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2016-05/msg00077.html

Saddeningly, Ian seems to have died aged 59.

I came long after that time, but looking at the commit logs,
he seems to have helped with the early days of the Guile 2
migration, which is ironically near to its end at the moment
(unless you argue it has been nearing the end for 10 years ...).

I've tried to CC a few people who participated in development
at that time and might not be following this list these days.

Jean