Re: Openlilylib

[Simon Albrecht]

Hi Andrew,

sorry that your investments into Dorico didn’t work out! It’s great to 
have you back in the Pond :)

I have been thinking that it would be nice to invest more time into Lily 
myself, but I don’t yet know whether/how/when I can make that happen.

Best, Simon

On 27/05/2022 10:24, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Having had to abandon the Openlilylib (OLL) work I took over from Urs 
> Liska, for various reasons, in the meantime I went over to Dorico 
> instead of Lilypond for my work. Having spent a lot of money on Dorico 
> (AUD$800+) and given it my best shot for more than year, it really 
> falls short for the modernist work that I do, dogmatically follows the 
> Gould rule book and does not let you override most of that (it's what 
> software people call an opinionated program), crashes often with the 
> latest release and they cant solve it and just remain silent, and 
> worse, the forum which I initially thought helpful is turning out to 
> be quite toxic and I get a lot of personal abuse. along with 
> deprecating comments about the music I work on. Consequently I have 
> binned Dorico as of yesterday and I am coming back to lilypond.
>
> The upshot of that is that I suppose I should revive the OLL work. 
> I'll recreate the dedicated server I set up, recreate the Discourse 
> forum for discussion, and work on the git repository, then people can 
> collaboratively work together again and I can take pull requests and 
> so on.
>
> I stalled initially a couple of years ago when I decided to totally 
> refactor the OLL github repostory, but now I think if we open it up 
> again as is and I work on that on the background which would be useful.
>
> I'll pay for the server resources out of my own pocket, but provide a 
> Paypal link for donations for running costs (server, domain name, etc).
>
> Andrew