Re: volunteering and other questions

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Le 9 janv. 08 à 00:37, Valentin Villenave a écrit :

> 2008/1/7, Tim Reeves <address@hidden>:
>
> > 4. What is a .ily file?
>
> It is basically, as far as I can understand, a programmer's use: you
> can't give the same extension to a file that is meant to be compiled
> as is, than to another file that is only meant to be included in
> another.
>
> (actually, you perfectly can, but it's just inelegant I guess)
>
> So Nicolas has this very elegant solution, that is to name all his
> files something.ily, then include them all in a master file, and only
> give the .ly extension to the master file that has to be compiled.
>
> I assume the "i" in "ily" stands fot "inclusion" or whatever.


It seems that there is no widespread convention or consensus
regarding extension of LilyPond files that are not compilable, but
should be included in other files. See for instance this thread:

 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2003-09/msg00025.html 
>

I chosed to use ".ily" for my scores because of the analogy with
.texi/.itexi, .tely/.itely, etc. And I seem to recall that ".ily"
has been used for some files in the LilyPond distribution.
[...searching...] Actually that's still the case:

./input/manual/engraver-example.ily
./input/mutopia/W.A.Mozart/mozart-hrn3-allegro.ily
./input/mutopia/W.A.Mozart/mozart-hrn3-defs.ily
./input/mutopia/W.A.Mozart/mozart-hrn3-romanze.ily
./input/mutopia/W.A.Mozart/mozart-hrn3-rondo.ily
./input/regression/allfontstyle.ily

nicolas