Re: Bravura in LilyPond

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi all (especially Nathan),

<this is important!>

2013/10/3 Nathan <address@hidden>:
> Back in May, Daniel Spreadbury announced the creation of a new music
> font, Bravura, for his scoring application.
>
> I liked the look of the font, so I gave a shot at implementing it in
> LilyPond by tweaking LilyJAZZ. [.....]


2013/12/13 Noeck <address@hidden>:
> Dear Urs and Janek,
>
> I contacted Nathan who wrote a support for the SMuFL font Bravura 0.3 in
> his mail in October:
> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Bravura-in-LilyPond-td151787.html
>
> He released his work as public domain (MIT license for the smufl part)
> and updated it to the current Bravura 0.7 release. And we agreed to
> include it into the snippets repo. [...]


2013/12/17 Noeck <address@hidden>:
> I have to emphasize once more that the real work has
> been done by Nathan Ho. I just included it to oll. He also wrote the README.
>
> Contact with him also showed how LP loses skilled contributors: He
> didn't get a single reply to his mail about this. That made him stop
> working on it. Now I stay in contact and he got back his enthusiasm
> about it, did the update to Bravura 0.7 and wants to go on.

Nathan, i am very sorry about the fact that your email in October
didn't get any replies.  I saw it back then and was interested in it
(actually i wanted to include it in openlilylib/snippets myself, after
trying it out), but i didn't find time to look at it in detail, and it
kept slipping from my head...  I apologize, and i feel personally
responsible for your discouragement.  Unfortunately, in LilyPond
community so many things are happening that it's nigh impossible to
keep up with everything, and we sometimes forget to appreciate
contributors for what they do.  I'm sorry about it.

Thanks for what you did!  It's awesome!  Hopefully now that it's
included in openlilylib/snippets
(http://github.com/openlilylib/snippets/tree/master/custom-music-fonts/smufl)
it won't get lost, and updating it should be simple.  I hope that it
will be possible to add it to core LilyPond some day, but before it'll
be possible to do this in a clean way, a few rough corners would have
to be polished and some (probably major) font code refactoring done...

Thanks for helping with this, Joram!

best,
Janek