Re: GSoC Follow-Up

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Ed,

> I’d love to hear everyone’s opinions about doing a project with stylesheets, 
> which seems to be the project I plan on applying with.  What would everyone 
> want to see in the project?

Here are some thoughts (stream-of-consciousness):

1. I want to be able to arbitrarily mix and match styles, in any order, without 
triggering conflicts and other problems. Currently in Lilypond, depending on 
which order you set the global font size versus load a stylesheet, initial 
settings can get overwritten/lost for what seems like no good reason. 
Obviously, there has to be some sort of determination of precedence — I'm 
assuming [like CSS] it would be cascading, and last-applied-wins.

2. I would like graceful fallback options (cf. CSS font-family lists), so that 
sharing stylesheets isn't a nightmare (e.g., if the person you share with is 
lacking the font you call for). Currently in Lilypond, the fallback situation — 
especially font-related — borders on catastrophic.

3. Naturally, Lilypond should use the new system "100% natively" (which is why 
you’re on board), not as some sort of add-on that requires an additional 
library (e.g., OLL).

That's it for now. If I think of anything else, I'll send another response.

Best,
Kieren.
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