Inquiry: Full Chinese translation of LilyPond docs (AI-assisted)
Kunpeng He via Discussions on LilyPond development <[email protected]> Tue, 12 May 2026 21:17:39 +0800
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Dear LilyPond developers and maintainers, Thank you for your great work. This elegant tool truly amazes me as an amateur music lover. However, I noticed that the current repository contains only a very small number of Chinese translation files (around 6 that I could find), and the online documentation largely falls back to the original English version. This makes it extremely difficult for Chinese-speaking musicians and enthusiasts who want to try LilyPond. Over the past few days, I used DeepSeek V4 Pro to translate the entire LilyPond documentation into Chinese. The result is a modification spanning 462 files, with roughly +63,215/−668 lines. It compiles successfully and looks fine in my local environment (https://gitlab.com/duskmoon314/lilypond/-/commit/6c4d0dabd659a09c004283d3c9ca7c46f82dd9fc). I'd love to contribute this work back to the project, but I would like to ask for your guidance first: - As an amateur music lover, I cannot guarantee the overall quality of the translation. Are there any quality standards we should meet before merging? Or would a complete version be acceptable, with polishing to follow later? - This is a large modification. Should I split it into multiple commits or separate pull requests? I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to properly integrate the translations. Thank you for your time, and for all the work on LilyPond! Kunpeng He