Re: Lilypond programmers "Hello world"?

[Mats Bengtsson]

I would recommend you to take a look at Erik Sandberg's master thesis,
available at http://lilypond.org/web/about/pubs

  /Mats

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Cambiata wrote:
>
>   
> > Is there some kind of basic developers guide, tutorial or message thread
> > dealing with the basic concepts of extending Lilypond?
> >     
>
> AFAICT there is no easy single point. However, when I want to do 
> something in LilyPond, I always let myself being guided by the masters.
>
> To accomplish that, I try to find something in LilyPond, which is already 
> similar to what I want. Then I try to find the corresponding code by 
> sifting through the commit messages, and after that, I look at the patches 
> these commits introduced. That gives me a fairly good start, usually.
>
> But I agree, an introduction into the technical concepts would be valuable 
> for new hackers. Alas, it is always the problem of time, so if you come up 
> with a good introduction, I would be so grateful.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
>
>
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