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Re: non-technical help for spacing issues
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Graham Percival |
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Re: non-technical help for spacing issues |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:24:33 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 01:23:01PM -0700, Keith E OHara wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:12:16 -0700, <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:47:01 -0700, Graham wrote:
> >This is directed at people saying "I can't do anything to help..."
> >
> You sent this to -devel; did you intend -user ?
No; I know from experience that this nets a few well-intentioned
but clueless users. Sometimes they turn out to be great
contributors (and even senior developers), but from experience
only about 30% of them result in a net plus to lilypond
development.
I wanted developers (some of whom have said "I can't do anything
to help with the current Critical issues"), and highly interested,
skilled users. Like yourself. :)
See below for more.
> I have a couple such overrides already from trying out the first
> alpha. In the next two evenings, I intend to try 2.13.37 on a
> few piano pieces, and one full-size orchestral score plus parts,
> and something string-quartet size from mutopia. I can post here
> any spacing overrides that seem wise, with tiny cropped images
> showing why I think they are wise, by Friday.
That sounds ideal!
> However, I have no familiarity with how vocal music is supposed
> to look, and I tend to avoid tweaks myself. Graham's request
> seems quite easy for a few people to cooperate on, if we test
> the union of the overrides that we collectively need.
That would also be great! Would you be willing to organize such
an effort, particularly including lilypond-user?
I don't want to send an email there, because then people (quite
reasonably) ask me about it, and I just don't have the time for
that -- it's not yet 9am on Wednesday, and I've already used up
7 hours of my allowable 10 hours of lilypond time for this week.
But if you were willing to organize the effort, help
well-intentioned users learn how to write tweaks, make apologies
for bugs or missing documentation, etc., this would definitely be a
great help towards 2.14! :)
Cheers,
- Graham