Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanw...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Valentin Villenave > <valen...@villenave.net> wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> Graham's recent 2.14 announcement, as well as Mike's wonderful work on >> the Emoticon_engraver (see >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-03/msg00860.html >> ) made me realize there are other features much more urgently needed >> in LilyPond. This requires to add a new backend altogether, which is >> pretty hard but since I haven't been of much help recently, I figured >> I'd give it a try. > > The joke is on you... > > Try > > git show 824deccb0aafd303e9af99c8ec5105108b9f06aa:mf/as5.af > > .. > > ^L C 95; WX 1; N clefs-G; B 0 -2000 6000 5000; > |\ > |/ > /| > / |_ > | /| \ > \_|_/ > *_| > > > In a long distant past, it was decided that ASCII messaging was the > future, and that therefore we had to have ASCII-art backend too. I am > glad we halted this experiment soon.
It has its uses in communication. gnuplot> set terminal dumb Terminal type set to 'dumb' Options are 'feed size 79, 24' gnuplot> plot sin(x) 1 ++---------------***---------------+---**-----------+--------**-----++ + * * + * ** + sin(x) ****** + 0.8 ++ * * * * * * ++ | * * * * * * | 0.6 *+ * * * * * * ++ |* * * * * * * | 0.4 +* * * * * * * ++ |* * * * * * * | 0.2 +* * * * * * *++ | * * * * * * * | 0 ++* * * * * * *+ -0.2 ++ * * * * * * *+ | * * * * * * *| -0.4 ++ * * * * * * *+ | * * * * * * * -0.6 ++ * * * * * * +* | * * * * * * | -0.8 ++ * * * * * * ++ + * * + ** * + * * + -1 ++-----**--------+-----------**----+--------------***---------------++ -10 -5 0 5 10 gnuplot> If it is reasonably cheap to have, things like that are a nice bonus also helping communication in text-only channels. Of course, "reasonably cheap" is not necessarily easy to achieve. So unless there is a more concrete application/demand, I would not even accept this as a wishlist item since it might keep contributors from working on more important things. If somebody still decides to contribute such support in a reasonably finished way... -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user