Re: The pleasantry of Lilyponding

[Paul Morris]

David Kastrup wrote
> Huh.  We are working at cross-purposes then.  I don't write scores as an
> intellectual challenge.  I rather tend to do scorish stuff on the list
> because I think it should be easy to prove to people that they are
> trivial to do with LilyPond.  Then LilyPond trips me up, and I end up
> dragging it kicking and screaming to the state where it would have been
> easy to do.

Indeed, +1 for what Shane said.  You are so valuable because most of us
don't have your coding skills and talents to be able to improve LilyPond
like this.

I do begin aiming for some result, not necessarily looking for an
intellectual challenge, but in the process there's an enjoyment in just
going from "how do you do that? is it possible?" to "I just did it, and now
I know how."

(And I'm often trying to talk LilyPond into doing unusual things and
learning as I go (i.e. alternative notation systems like Clairnote:
http://clairnote.org).)

-Paul



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