Fw: Understanding the processing model

[Mark Polesky]

(forwarded from -user)

Martin Hosken wrote:
> Is there any documentation that explains more of the internal workings
> of lilypond. I'm looking for something that explains how music events
> get to engravers and then what happens afterwards with the layout
> events. 'When' are stencils executed? Is it possible to write an
> engraver in scm?
>
> I am managing to get somewhere with writing scheme code to do what I
> want, but the effects are usually more through luck than judgement: I
> write something expecting something to happen and it doesn't so I have
> to write it a different way. I think if I understood the overall
> processing of events better from music events through to output events
> and when things execute, I could do a whole lot better.

+1

- Mark