Fw: LilyPond support for `festival`

[Werner LEMBERG]

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    Werner
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> Re: LilyPond support for `festival`
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> Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:55:03 +0200
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> >>>>> "WL" == Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:
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>     WL> I wonder what we should do with the 'festival' and 'lilysong'
>     WL> files (and related stuff) in LilyPond.  Please have a look at
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>     WL>   https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/1245
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>     WL> This stuff is completely undocumented...
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> Hello Werner,
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> if this is the only bug filed about this stuff then I would consider
> removing lilysong etc.  Probably nobody cares about it, because
> ‘lilysong’ command doesn’t work due to various Python 3 and other
> problems.  And Festival itself is abandonware, although still present in
> some GNU/Linux distributions, due to lack of better speech synthesis
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> Under such circumstances, especially the status of Festival, I think
> trying to fix the problems and adding documentation would be waste of
> resources.  Does anybody think otherwise?
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> (The primary purpose of lilysong was to allow blind user to easily check
> for misaligned score and lyrics.)
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> Regards,
> Milan
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