Currently there is a bit of a lull (not entirely graceful due to me not
keeping up with things all the best), so the time seems convenient.
There are a few "critical" bugs outstanding, the "Changes" document
should be reordered to be systematic rather than in reverse time order,
and I'd want to add a bit of syntactic Scheme and LilyPond sugar of the
\markup blabla = \markup \with-color #red \etc
variety in order to define named markup functions via \etc . Basically,
this would split define-markup-command into a definition part called by
\markup blabla = ...
and a function part, say
(markup-lambda (layout props arg) (markup?)
#:properties ....)
that can be generated by a \markup ... \etc expression or other means.
Basically, that's mainly for avoiding the current "ugh" of
blabla-markup = \markup ... \etc
that does not even work as (markup #:blabla ...). I think. This
syntactic addition is reasonably straightforward and limited.
Other things up for cherry-picking are documentation changes and their
translations. Since translations usually are done in "bulk", it would
make sense to only translate stuff in the stable 2.20 branch in the
interregnum: that way the translation branch can be merged (rather than
individual parts cherry-picked) into the stable branch until the stable
branch gets released.
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David Kastrup