Re: Back in the Pond

[Alexander Kobel]

Hi David,

On 2017-01-19 12:59, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> David, you wrote Thursday, January 19, 2017 10:18 AM
>
> > it would appear that my excursion into a regular workplace ended up
> somewhat shortlived.
>
> Really sorry to hear that, but it's great to have you back!

Ditto.  I wish that you would have had better luck with that endeavor...

> > So for the short time range, I am again dependent
> > on support by other LilyPond lovers.
>
> I'll definitely turn on my financial contribution again.

Ditto, although it's just a drop in a mostly empty bucket...

> > So what's next on my agenda?
> > [...]
> > And, of course, this is an opportunity to try putting out the 2.20
> > release finally.
>
> Definitely the top priority, IMO.

+1.  A personal wish: I think that \lyricsto ChoirStaff = "ctx" { ... } 
has the potential to be a killer feature w.r.t. usability for choir 
literature (especially combined with the upcoming automatic extenders). 
Unfortunately, assignment of lyrics to *container* contexts does not 
work (at least, not reliably), and extender generation is completely 
defunct. I reported that in a thread from 2016-12-26 on bug-lilypond, 
but could not motivate any supporters yet.

I saw a comment by you that you are aware of the issue; can't remember 
where, it was at some point during my (unsuccessful) debugging streak 
for the problem - might well be a very old comment in the issue tracker 
or a commit message or the like.  May I kindly ask you to have a look 
and think about whether this might be tackleable before 2.20?  I have no 
good intuition for the complexity of this issue; the *specification* 
part should be reasonably simple (which syllable corresponds to which 
note(s)), but I don't know what kind of difficulties the current design 
presents for actually coding it.


Cheers,
Alexander