>WL> I wonder what we should do with the 'festival' and 'lilysong' >WL> files (and related stuff) in LilyPond. Please have a look at >WL> >WL> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/1245 >WL> >WL> This stuff is completely undocumented... > > 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 alternatives.
OK, thanks, I'll remove it from LilyPond. > (The primary purpose of lilysong was to allow blind user to easily > check for misaligned score and lyrics.) By the way, is there a recent and maintained alternative to it? Essentially, we would really like to have support for visually impaired people so that they can use LilyPond more easily. I can imagine that this is a problem other score writing programs are trying to manage, too. So maybe there exists something that can handle MusicXML? I've opened an issue as a reminder. https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6664 Werner