Re: Aleatoric / modern notation

[Janek Warchoł]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:25 AM, SoundsFromSound
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I'll keep you posted for sure.  Say, do you suppose that this boxed notation
> utility could be implemented sooner (and perhaps with more powerful
> features) in LilyPond if funding/support increased?

Well, i think the situation is like this:
- increasing continouous financial support (e.g. for David) has a
positive effect on lily development in general, but i think that the
difference wrt/ boxed notation itself wouldn't be noticeable (i.e.
don't expect that if you give more money to David Kastrup he'll go and
implement this soon),
- contributing to Lily yourself (i.e. writing code, or documentation,
or helping with organizing things - you don't have to be a programmer
to help) also has a positive effect on lily development in general,
but the difference wrt/ implementing boxed notation won't be
noticeable unless you start working on boxed notation itself,
- you can pay one of the experienced developers to implement
specifically this feature.  But that would probably be expensive, as
programming work is expensive in general.  You'll probably need to
find several other people willing to pay for this.

cheers,
Janek