ScholarLY - introduction and call for collaboration

[Urs Liska]

Hi all,

usually I don't advertise Scores of Beauty posts here, but every now and 
then there's an exception to the rule.

I have just published a post introducing my new LilyPond library 
ScholarLY, which intends to become a powerful toolkit for scholarly 
edition workflows. The first building block that is in a usable state by 
now is \annotate, a set of functions to annotate musical content and to 
maintain annotations directly within the LilyPond input files. This can 
on the one hand _significantly_ increase efficiency in scholarly 
workflows, and on the other hand it can be used as a kind of in-source 
issue tracker for any kind of LilyPond project.

I suggest anybody interested in scholarly editing having a look at the 
post at
http://lilypondblog.org/2015/01/introducing-scholarly/
and consider joining the project. There is much more to be done, but 
also to be discussed and designed. So don't hesitate to come up with 
suggestions, questions and issues, even when you won't contribute a 
single line of code.

Of course I have already had enormous benefits through the (Scheme) 
competence on this list. Many thanks to everybody, you'll know who I 
mean ...

Best
Urs