Re: Requesting an addition

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

>> I'm not sure if this the right place to ask this, but I'd be willing
>> to send somebody some money via Paypal to add the so-called "Haydn
>> turn" (reversed turn with vertical slash) to Lilypond.
>
> Please provide a scan (or a link to it) of such a symbol which you
> consider as good-looking..
>
>> I have no idea how much work this would take and what the going rate
>> for a feature like this is.
>
> If an existing symbol can be reused, implementing this is rather
> straightforward, and a few hours of work will do.  A design from
> scratch probably needs three or four times as long.

By the way: how is the relation to other music fonts?  If we invent a
new articulation, music fonts from other sources will not know about it,
or we won't know about what they have.  And even if we puzzle
articulations together from pieces, they won't fit together just the
same in other music fonts.

So what's the sanest course with regard to new articulations?  This is
not really related to this particular addition, but it generally makes
me wonder.

-- 
David Kastrup