Re: (hypothetical) Availability of LilyPond engravers

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Urs (et al.),

> In any projects not all contributors have to be proficient with all aspects, 
> particularly not with beautifying the final output.

Agreed.

> Nevertheless people should be able to provide their input without requiring 
> too much hand-holding and without producing an inappropriate amount of errors.

That, but also more. They should at least have: a good understanding of best 
(or at least better) practices in terms of structuring the Lilypond code 
(unless that was done for them beforehand, and they’re just “filling in the 
blanks”); a good sense of when a manual process might be replaced efficiently 
and effectively with an automated one (e.g., a new function or engraver), even 
if they can’t create that solution themselves; etc.

Unless I had seen several examples of the Lilypond code (not just output!) that 
someone had generated recently, I wouldn’t even consider sending them a 
hand-written manuscript to engrave from scratch.

Cheers,
Kieren.

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