Re: Future of OpenLilyLib

[Valentin Petzel]

Hello Karlin,

I’m sure no one who engages on the list will feel burdened by your questions, 
in the worst case they might just not engage with it and ignore it, that is as 
long as you talk nicely and do not demand for things (as the people here are 
doing this because they want to in their spare time this can be one hell of a 
turn-off. We do not *serve* the community, we *are* the community).

Generally I think we feel glad about people of all levels joining and being in 
the community, and I do not think anyone here has problems with not all 
questions being on the most obscure Lilypond level. Maybe unless they are 
questions that can easily be answered by reading a small bit of documentation.

Cheers,
Valentin

Am Montag, 21. November 2022, 20:43:29 CET schrieb Karlin High:
> On 11/21/2022 11:09 AM, Mark Knoop wrote:
> > It would be good to get a feel from users how much this resource isused
> 
> I have heard lots of good things about OpenLilyLib.
> 
> But I remain somewhat unclear as to what it offers and how it would be
> used in my usages for SATB/TTBB shape-note hymns and light choral works.
> 
> My first experience with OLL was downloading the zip folder with it,
> just to start poking it with sticks and see what it does. I extracted
> the zip, tried to use with LilyPond on Windows, and got lots of file
> path errors about not being able to find things or do anything.
> 
> It seemed like I could not find "a way in" to making use of it.
> 
> Asking questions on the lists and such left me feel like I was burdening
> the developers for it, needing "explain it like I am 5 years old"
> efforts when they could best serve the community by exploring and
> advancing the limits of LilyPond's capabilities with others who were
> already up to speed in the relevant areas.
> 
> I still have a dream project of using LilyPond to produce a new edition
> of a hymnal containing 467 songs. The Edition Engraver seems like a
> must-have for that.

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