Hi, a short comment:
2013/8/11 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> writes: > >>> I think "so poorly documented that in practice almost no one can >>> understand how it works" still can't qualify as "in effect >>> proprietary". >> >> It is not *that* badly documented. However, the number of people who >> understand Metafont are rather small today. > > git shortlog -sn mf/ > 459 Han-Wen Nienhuys > 160 Jan Nieuwenhuizen > 104 Werner Lemberg > 20 Jürgen Reuter > 16 Carl D. Sorensen > 15 Janek Warchoł > 11 Mats Bengtsson > 7 Bertrand Bordage > 7 Maximilian Albert > 4 David Kastrup > 4 Graham Percival > 4 John Mandereau > 4 Phil Holmes > 4 Tom Cato Amundsen > 3 Erlend Aasland > 3 Marc Hohl > 3 Patrick McCarty > 3 Reinhold Kainhofer > 3 Rune Zedeler > 2 Aleksandr Andreev > 2 Neil Puttock > 1 Benkő Pál > 1 Carsten Steger > 1 Glen Prideaux > 1 Julien Rioux > 1 Mark Polesky > 1 Michael Welsh Duggan > 1 Nicolas Sceaux > > Some of those will have worked on the build system rather than the fonts > themselves, but I doubt that all of those working on the fonts had > previous exposure to Metafont/Metapost. All my commits concerned Metafont, but i would never say that i *understand* Metafont. I was just juggling with some numbers, trying like monkey until it worked. And as i'm pretty high on the list, this really means that few people understand Metafont. Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
