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