Welcome to LilyPond, Zhanming!
There was a good bit of discussion about jianpu in LilyPond about
10years ago; a search of the archives might be interesting.
In the mean time, jianpu-ly
<https://ssb22.user.srcf.net/mwrhome/jianpu-ly.html> could be worth study.
Cheers,
Colin
On 2025-12-16 7:17 p.m., 陈湛明 wrote:
Dear developers,
I am thinking of adding support for an alternative musical notation that is
widely used in China called jiǎnpǔ, which looks distinct from stave, using
numbers to represent pitch. My first attempt was completely building it from
scratch in Haskell, but I stopped after I realised that my data structure is
not as complete as other solutions like LilyPond and GUIDO after I read their
documentations. So I decided to extend LilyPond.
This is my first time contributing to a large software, and I am not quite sure
where to begin, Scheme part or C++ part? I guess jiǎnpǔ only needs its own
engraver implementation, and its markup could probably be the same as of stave.
Thanks in advance if there is anyone can help me start working on it :). I will
be installing LilyDev while I wait.
Regards,
Zhanming
