publishing the lilypond essay

[Eric Ries]

Greetings. I am a big fan of GNU Lilypond, as well as a fellow hacker, so I
wanted to write in with some kudos for a job very well done. Recently, I've
been looking into publishing some sheet music books, and plan to use
Lilypond for the engraving. I had two questions (and here's hoping this is
the right address to send to).

First, I was wondering if you have a version of your online essay
http://lilypond.org/web/about/automated-engraving/ that you'd like
published. I'd like to give credit to the Lilypond team, and also explain to
our readers why the engraving is of such high quality. My first thought was
to reproduce your essay (verbatim or condensed) in each edition. What do you
think? Do you have a PDF version of it already?

Second, I work on this project with several people who have a very keen eye
for typesetting and musical notation (alas, I am not one myself). I was
curious if this is the right place to send in errors or suggested
corrections that they catch in the output of Lilypond. I'm fluent in C++ and
python, so with some orientation I may be able to help contribute fixes. Is
there someone in particular I should talk to about this? I'd hate to be
submitting things that are either not actual bugs or redundant known issues.

Thanks,

Eric