Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

[SoundsFromSound]

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Janek Warchoł-2 wrote
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:25 AM, SoundsFromSound
> <

> soundsfromsound@

> > wrote:
>> I'll keep you posted for sure.  Say, do you suppose that this boxed
>> notation
>> utility could be implemented sooner (and perhaps with more powerful
>> features) in LilyPond if funding/support increased?
> 
> Well, i think the situation is like this:
> - increasing continouous financial support (e.g. for David) has a
> positive effect on lily development in general, but i think that the
> difference wrt/ boxed notation itself wouldn't be noticeable (i.e.
> don't expect that if you give more money to David Kastrup he'll go and
> implement this soon),
> 
>>>> I see.
> 
> - contributing to Lily yourself (i.e. writing code, or documentation,
> or helping with organizing things - you don't have to be a programmer
> to help) also has a positive effect on lily development in general,
> but the difference wrt/ implementing boxed notation won't be
> noticeable unless you start working on boxed notation itself,
> 
>>>> I wish I could contribute more to the notation programming itself but
>>>> I'm not a strong programmer (unless you count OOP like MaxMSP, etc) -
>>>> so that really isn't an option for me.
> 
> 
> - you can pay one of the experienced developers to implement
> specifically this feature.  But that would probably be expensive, as
> programming work is expensive in general.  You'll probably need to
> find several other people willing to pay for this.
> 
>>>> I'm confused, I thought David 
/
> was 
/
> a developer - no? You said paying him would not be a likely path to seeing
> this boxed notation implemented further, but rather just to help LilyPond
> in general, progress as software.
> 
> How would one go about getting an "estimate" with regards to requests like
> this one? Thank you for clarifying this for me, because up until this
> point, I thought the boxed notation situation was in its current state
> because it simply was not possible (from a coding standpoint or something)
> - not a matter of time/funding/desire for modern notation possibilities.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> cheers,
> Janek
> 
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