Getting involved

[Till Rettig]

Hi everybody,

a while ago I thought i might put my own bit into the lilypond work. So 
I checked the stuff on the development pages and ended up that a German 
translation for the web page and the documentation would be a nice 
thing. But first I thought of asking here if there is this kind of 
project already under progress (like the similar case recently with the 
French docu). I know that in the end i should move to the developer's 
list but for now it seems this list is bigger. Sure this would be quite 
a big project, so it would be interesting to hear if people like/need 
this and if there would be possible co-workers.
First information about the process itself I got from the lilypondwiki, 
but it seems to be quite old information, and when I translated a page 
of the 2.11 docu according to this how-to and opened it in my browser, 
no pics where shown (wile being in their correct folders) -- is this 
then a problem that will only be fixed after the translation or is it 
the bug about the links that I encountered here?

Another point is the support for ancient notation, especially the 
mensural or renaissance engravers. I think there should still be some 
work done, and I would be happy if I could also help here -- though I 
don't know will I actually be able to write some code; so far I have no 
experiences in programming. For instance the spacing of this music 
should be done quite differently to modern music, especially the 
ligatures leave as much space as the according durations would take by 
themselves, and this is not the way this notations was written. Another 
point are the symbols themselves, which look quite decently, but have 
not the same perfectness as the default notation symbols. Also I think 
there should be support for "Black mensural notation", used until the 
15th century in central Europe. I don't have much knowledge about font 
design at the moment, but would be glad if someone could point out where 
I could find some basics so I could start some drawing if this feature 
is welcomed.

Greetings from Finland
Till