Re: Options for using LilyPond in an Android app

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On 31/07/16 14:02, David Kastrup wrote:
> Wols Lists <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On 31/07/16 12:46, David Kastrup wrote:
>>> Wols Lists <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Bearing in mind I live on the edge of London (the largest city in the
>>>> world?)
>>>
>>> Well, if "the world" is just the Commonwealth and we skip over India,
>>> Pakistan, and Nigeria (after all, an urban administration not able to
>>> recognize the Queen as head of state is suitable for a hamlet rather
>>> than a city, even if some of them play a mean Cricket).
>>>
>>> <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_largest_cities#List>.
>>>
>> Well, I believe that according to certain criteria, Kansas is the
>> largest city in the world ... :-)
> 
> I would have imagined that any criteria for "largest city in the world"
> would include "has to be a city".  Without that restriction, I would
> imagine Asia to be a bigger city than Kansas.

Well, I thought Kansas WAS a city. And the city boundaries are well big
- although most of it is land earmarked for development, and is actually
pretty rural - not even suburbs.
> 
>> But it looks like my general knowledge may be a little out of date - I
>> don't think the population of London has changed (much) over my
>> lifetime, but I suspect my figures date from when the population of
>> India was closer to 400K than its current figure ... :-)
> 
> India.  400K.  That would likely have been a few millennia before
> Christ, in the early stages of the Indus civilization.
> 
> I hope you are exaggerating your age.
> 
Whoops. I meant, of course, 400M :-)

Cheers,
Wol