LilyPond GOP - temporary jobs

LilyPond needs help with a number of short-term tasks.

Jobs for normal users

Website redesign
One of the main goals of GOP is to redesign the website. We need help with the new website, in particular:
  1. Rewriting the "music engraving" essay: we have two essays (one on the website, one in LM 1.1). They need to be merged, hopefully without losing any valuable info.
  2. "Editors" page: nice descriptions, with screenshots, of various editors that are suitable for lilypond. This will either require one person installing a whole bunch of software on a whole bunch of operating systems, or a lot of people all sending in their own setups.
  3. "Nifty features" page: show off neat things you can do in lilypond.
  4. CSS / web standards: everybody knows that I'm strictly a "substance" kind of guy. I write content in vi; other people can fiddle with the "style" or "presentation". Of course, we need those "other people", otherwise the new website will look very boring indeed (albeit informative and easy to navigate)!
  5. Closely related to the previous point: graphical design and layout for the website. I'm not a graphics person.
  6. Very closely related to the previous two points: a technically-oriented person to tweak texi2html to produce the output we want. Existing perl knowledge is a plus, but I think it's all pretty basic perl so you could learn it on the job.
Documentation
Although GDP (the Grand Documentation Project) did great work, there's still tasks remaining. The LM needs a bit of work (both proofreading, and finishing the last few sections); NR 1-2 still isn't finished; NR 3 and 4 are in the middle of being processed, and the AU also needs some attention.
Another great example: there's some really nifty stuff in the input/* directory (thinking of wilhemus.ly in particular), but I'm not certain if those tricks are in LSR or the NR yet. Integrate them.

Jobs for advanced users or developers

Useful tricks
We all have our own predefined tweaks and scheme functions. Clean them up, create a regtest and documentation, and get them added to lilypond itself! Now everybody can benefit from that specially-tuned compound time signature function that you spend four hours creating!

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Contact me at graham@percival-music.ca