Re: Quit [now definitely O/T]

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Hello Kieren, hello David, hello out there,

I followed this conversation a little bit. Well I have been a quite  
good C++ coder, but that was about 10 years ago. Right now I am one of  
those million java developers.
For my Job I had to turn to Java, wich I didn't really love. With  
Java5 it got a lot better. But thats not my point now ;)
Nowadays I have to feed my family, so my afforts to get back into  
music business are very careful ...
 I came over Lilypond last May, when I had too get some chants in the  
paper (how do you call it?) of my cousins wedding. I first tried to  
copy them from the book. But there were ugly black margins, then I  
started to typeset in Logic Pro, wich I used and liked a long time for  
music production, but then I found this very pretty piece Lilypond. It  
took me half an hour to typeset those 4 chants on my Ubuntu machine.  
From those days on I used it a lot of times to get choral scores more  
readable, to transpose pieces and, most important, to typeset my own  
and my familys  compositions.
Now I am really passionate in talking about Lily. It feels so good,  
when there is such a nice Score to view after typing a few characters.

So my question would be, is there a guide to the sources? Are there  
key principals in the architecture?
If there is a chance to get into this next to my job, I would really  
like to give Lily somthing!

Regards,
Jan-Peter.

Am 12.11.2009 um 15:42 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:

> Hi David,
>
> > The best programmers are often programmers that are into  
> > programming for
> > the sake of programming.  Ask such a person for help with typesetting
> > music, and Lilypond will be one of the points of attraction for  
> > him, and
> > obstacles are disproving his geek state (or the state of what he  
> > claimed
> > to be the best he can deliver).
> >
> > For many pet projects, the principal programmers are casual users at
> > best, since they are mostly, well programmers.
>
> Please invite all of these people to the ’Pond...
> I can't wait to see/hear the stampede.
>
> Regards,
> Kieren.
>
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