Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-13 Thread Graeme Lee
On 13-May 6:57, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:41:12PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 08:10:03AM -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 06:15:55PM +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote: Greetings All, I am wondering how large the lilypond end user community

How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Andrew Bernard
Greetings All, I am wondering how large the lilypond end user community is. Are there any estimates? Additional to this, I am wondering what the breakdown is by computer platform, for example, how many people use Fedora, and so on. Andrew ___

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:18:02AM -0400, Shane Brandes wrote: I agree no useful way to make a solid conclusion on numbers. I also know several people that use Lilypond but either don't need the functionality to the point they need to be here on this list or don't want to have the clutter in

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 12/05/2015 17:18, Shane Brandes a écrit : I agree no useful way to make a solid conclusion on numbers. I also know several people that use Lilypond but either don't need the functionality to the point they need to be here on this list or don't want to have the clutter in their inbox and

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Steve Lacy
Not that this is any indication of install userbase, but there are 117 repositories on GitHub that match language:LilyPond https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93q=language%3ALilyPond Additionally, there are 90 people subscribed to the LilyPond subreddit on reddit.com:

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 08:10:03AM -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 06:15:55PM +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote: Greetings All, I am wondering how large the lilypond end user community is. Are there any estimates? Additional to this, I am wondering what the breakdown is

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Tue, 12 May 2015, Steve Lacy wrote: Otherwise, it's going to be pretty hard to guess total userbase size from things like mailing lists GitHub.  Maybe we can ask the NSA - don't they know everything? :-) MT___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Sam Bivens
Hi Andrew, Mark me down as another Fedora 21 Lilypond user. Unfortunately I don't have the skills (or time...) to aid in your development issue, but I still thought I'd share! To address something that Martin hinted at--what Linux distros automatically come with Lilypond? I was unaware that that

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:41:12PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 08:10:03AM -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 06:15:55PM +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote: Greetings All, I am wondering how large the lilypond end user community is. Are there any

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Tue, 12 May 2015, Sam Bivens wrote: To address something that Martin hinted at--what Linux distros automatically come with Lilypond? I was unaware that that existed. I know: Fedora Jam Ubuntu Studio -- P.S. I use LilyPond on Fedora 21 and 22

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Shane Brandes
Ubuntu Studio is what I am using, of course by the time I am done with it it doesn't look too much like the studio version anymore. The long time stable version and even the regular releases tend to have a significant lag between current stable releases. Shane On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:19 PM,

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Tue, 12 May 2015, Andrew Bernard wrote: Greetings All, I am wondering how large the lilypond end user community is. Are there any estimates? How many people read this mailing list? That would be a better estimation than how many people have lilypond installed. It's very easy to install

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Andrew Bernard
Yes, perhaps the question was poorly thought out, in terms of what defines a user, but it is interesting. For example, I am having difficulty with the standard binary distribution on Fedora 21, which will not compile files using fonts with large character sets such as Linux Libertine (defect

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Michael Gerdau
For example, I am having difficulty with the standard binary distribution on Fedora 21, which will not compile files using fonts with large character sets such as Linux Libertine (defect report just submitted). I was led to muse that if there are only four or five people in the world using

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I am just thinking out aloud that maybe fixing the Fedora issue my be my way of starting to contribute to the development, and the question arose while reflecting whether working in this area is a worthwhile effort. It's certainly worth the trouble! It seems that the problem is specific to

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Stephen MacNeil
Hey Andrew I use LFS -- have for years. I HATE binary distros especially ubuntu and it's variants. That said i know several (as a guitarist) sites with forums that discuss lilypond - and the users are never here. As well I personally know users that - again are not here. so really there is no way

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Andrew Bernard
As a clarification to my own post, there is no intention here to diminish the awesome work the of lilypond developers here at all. I am just thinking out aloud that maybe fixing the Fedora issue my be my way of starting to contribute to the development, and the question arose while reflecting

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 04:19:41PM -0400, Sam Bivens wrote: Hi Andrew, Mark me down as another Fedora 21 Lilypond user. Unfortunately I don't have the skills (or time...) to aid in your development issue, but I still thought I'd share! To address something that Martin hinted at--what

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread J Martin Rushton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/15 21:28, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2015, Sam Bivens wrote: To address something that Martin hinted at--what Linux distros automatically come with Lilypond? I was unaware that that existed. I know: Fedora Jam

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno mar 12 mag 2015 alle 12:23, Andrew Bernard andrew.bern...@gmail.com ha scritto: I am just thinking out aloud that maybe fixing the Fedora issue my be my way of starting to contribute to the development, and the question arose while reflecting whether working in this area is a

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Phil Holmes
-user Mailinglist Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 9:15 AM Subject: How many lilypond users are there? Greetings All, I am wondering how large the lilypond end user community is. Are there any estimates? Additional to this, I am wondering what the breakdown is by computer platform

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread Shane Brandes
I agree no useful way to make a solid conclusion on numbers. I also know several people that use Lilypond but either don't need the functionality to the point they need to be here on this list or don't want to have the clutter in their inbox and simply google how to do things. Shane On Tue, May

Re: How many lilypond users are there?

2015-05-12 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 06:15:55PM +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote: Greetings All, I am wondering how large the lilypond end user community is. Are there any estimates? Additional to this, I am wondering what the breakdown is by computer platform, for example, how many people use Fedora, and