Re: mutopia's shortcomings

[Gilles]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:15:21 +0200, Noeck wrote:
> Dear Kieren,
>
> > With the edition-engraver, there is (a) no need to mix layout with 
> > contents

This seemed great; I looked for it in the documentation; and
did not find it...

> I already wanted to submit a score to Mutopia using the edition
> engraver. But I finally used ordinary tweaks because we were not sure
> how future proof this is. This bings me to my questions:
>
> 1. How stable is the interface of the edition engraver?
>    Will the commands to use it change?
>
> 2. Will it always be in the current place of OpenLilyLib?

Now, I understand why. :-{

> 3. Might it get integrated into the core of LilyPond?
>    (Currently it is not guaranteed that OLL is available when Mutopia
>    scores are compiled, so its usage is complicated)
>
> Because it does not make sense to improve the maintainability of a 
> large
> set of scores by relying on a functionality that has to be adapted
> manually in future and thus produces more manual interventions.

Indeed.

Best regards,
Gilles

> To be clear, I like the edition engraver very much.