Re: Simple OS X Lily previewer in the works (was getting Lily/mftrace on MacOSX)

[Ed Baskerville]

> > (2) Any other key features you'd like to see?
> point and click.

I've received a number of requests for "point-and-click." I haven't 
been following the discourse on the recent "point-and-click" 
developments in LilyPond carefully enough, so I'm not sure what is 
being asked for. Do you want a full graphical editor? (I do too.) 
Something that lets you click on a note and highlight the code? (Even 
that would be nice.) Or something else? These things are probably 
beyond my time constraints right now, but I'll keep these requests in 
mind.

> firstly, i am very grateful for the work that goes into valuable 
> creations, and feel that nobody should work for nothing. however, as 
> an experimental composer, i often find myself working for little to 
> nothing.

I'm a cellist who has been spending a significant amount of time 
recently on experimental projects that do not, as of yet, provide any 
financial support--so I understand the conflict between financial and 
artistic fulfillment. To completely ignore the long and complicated 
discourse on intellectual property and free software: I need to pay my 
bills, and cello isn't doing that right now. I could look for contract 
programming jobs--and I may yet find myself again with a full-time 
job--but right now I'd much prefer to write software that really 
interests me, that I myself will use, and that serves a community I 
personally care about. Unfortunately, to do that, I need to ask for 
compensation.

That said, I plan to release this tool as some flavor of shareware, and 
I certainly want to make it affordable to the experimental composer or 
composition student or struggling cellist "slash" programmer*.

--Ed

*and not the other way around: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196229/