Re: Discussion about Lilypond(for GSoC 2019 project)

[Karlin High]

On 3/6/2019 12:02 PM, AKSHITA TYAGI wrote:
> What I think is that it should work on more languages. Like India, 
> Chinese etc these are the countries that are really found of music and 
> use of Lilypond would increase if it is available in more languages.

More translations sounds like a welcome effort. There is already one 
listed for Chinese. <http://lilypond.org/index.zh.html> But I am not 
aware of anything currently being done for any of India's languages.

I am thinking that a translation project also needs ongoing maintenance 
work, as new material gets added to LilyPond. A GSoC project would be 
just a starting point.

> And it will be fun to see musical notations to music. like one form 
> his/her own notations on Lilypond and it is translated to real music.
> Please let me know what you think about the ideas.

LilyPond currently has MIDI output, which other tools can convert to 
audio or even video formats. "Translating to real music" - can you 
further explain what result you want to have?

For other kinds of Asian notation, LilyPond has seen some work for 
Chinese Jianpu notation, and a request for Bengali Swaralipi is 
currently "shelved" for lack of resources.

<https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5244/>

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Karlin High
Missouri, USA