Felipe, I apologize for being so slow to respond. I lost this mail in my mail handling system.
On 12/22/10 9:43 PM, "Felipe Gonçalves Assis" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I would like to help solving Issue 1278 (arrow notation for quarter tones). > > I understand that it is one of low priority and just an enhancement. I am > also aware that the development is currently focused on getting 2.14 out. > However, I believe this is a good opportunity for me to contribute since > it is something I could reasonably grasp. > > I have written a patch that might be of interest. It addresses the issue > by changing the LilyPond representation of alterations to a pair of > integers, > with no implied pitch values, as suggested by Hans Aberg > (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg30877.html). Can you upload a patch to Reitveld for review? That would be the easiest way to get started. Use git-cl to upload the patch, then go to the Rietveld issue and Publish and Mail comments to announce the posting of the patch. > > I believe this to be at least a concrete starting point. Even if we decide > for > something different, I could be of assistance, both in discussions and > code-work. > > The help I would need back from more experienced developers would be > mainly in: > * Discussion of some design decisions; > * Some clarifications on regression tests; > * Writing convert-ly rules; > * Kind reviews of my Scheme code. We'll be happy to provide feedback for you. Where you are starting with such a major issue (major in the sense that it affects the fundamental representations in LilyPond, rather than just creating some new output), I think it best to start right off in conversations with the core developers. > > By the way, with regard to my qualifications, I think it is important to > say that I speak C++ natively, but have just learnt enough Lisp/Scheme/Guile > to make the mentioned patch work. Also, I am familiar with basic music > theory, but everything I know about quarter tones arrow notation comes > from the feature request. Finally, I am new to git, but with that I am > getting along pretty well. We are always happy to welcome a new developer to the community. Thanks, Carl --- ---- Join the Frogs!
