Re: Lines and Ties and Slurs oh my!

[Janek Warchoł]

2014-02-15 18:32 GMT+01:00  <address@hidden>:
> janek wrote:
>> Unfortunately, i have very little time for lilypond now, so i cannot
>> do much more.  If you'd like to start seriously working on this issue,
>> i'd be happy to provide some guidance, feedback and testing.  I
>> estimate that anyone who wants to really fix this would have to spend
>> 20-30 hours on researching tie shapes (i.e. reading my research),
>> 10-20 hours to get an idea how lilypond thinks about ties now, 40-80
>> hours on writing new algorithms and then 20-60 hours on testing and
>> fixing corner cases.  With that amount of effort, it should be
>> possible to create an almost-perfect tie formatting algorithms (i
>> mean, an algorithm that formats 99.9% ties correctly, as opposed to
>> 50% success rate now).
>>
>> I'm sorry if this sounds discouraging, but that's how it is.
>
>   I will select examples of ties and slurs from Goldberg on 2.18.0 and put
> together a minimalist
> exposition for discussion.

Good - we can then merge our research results.