Re: Lines and Ties and Slurs oh my!

[Urs Liska]

Am 15.02.2014 18:32, schrieb address@hidden:
> > hello,
>
> < snip>
>
> > Unfortunately, i have very little time for lilypond now, so i cannot
> > do much more.  If you'd like to start seriously working on this issue,
> > i'd be happy to provide some guidance, feedback and testing.  I
> > estimate that anyone who wants to really fix this would have to spend
> > 20-30 hours on researching tie shapes (i.e. reading my research),
> > 10-20 hours to get an idea how lilypond thinks about ties now, 40-80
> > hours on writing new algorithms and then 20-60 hours on testing and
> > fixing corner cases.  With that amount of effort, it should be
> > possible to create an almost-perfect tie formatting algorithms (i
> > mean, an algorithm that formats 99.9% ties correctly, as opposed to
> > 50% success rate now).
> >
> > I'm sorry if this sounds discouraging, but that's how it is.
>
>    I will select examples of ties and slurs from Goldberg on 2.18.0 and put
> together a minimalist
> exposition for discussion.
>
>         So, I guess the final solution is to do some programming work.
> Hmm... what
> if we paid someone to do the work?  Can we raise money through kickstarter
> for this kind of project?

Principally this is perfectly possible. The question is always to get 
someone to do it. If you're interested in the subject you could well go 
for it:
- determine how much funds would be needed and
- be sure that you could actually find someone who does it.
- then raise the Kickstarter project.

I think this would be a very welcome effort.

Best
Urs