Macro and Lua repositories?

Dorico
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Are there repositories of Dorico macros and lua script? Can someone please post a link or two? Thanks.

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I don’t think there are currently repos.

I was a contributor to and helped maintain the Finale Lua repo. Setting up a repo for Dorico scripts is easy; the tricky parts are figuring out how to organize it, deciding on a process for submissions, and setting up at least a minimal infrastructure for indexing and describing the repo so people can find what they’re looking for.

Maybe this will be my holiday project!

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@asherber, Thanks for your reply. I hope you have a busy holiday - LOL. It would be great for the community if you decide to do it – whenever you dig into it.

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I’ve started setting up some of the infrastructure for this, and I’d like to hear people’s thoughts about how submissions might be managed.

For Finale, script submissions were handled through GitHub pull requests – which requires that people have familiarity with git and GitHub. This made sense for Finale lua scripts, since they needed to be written by people with coding experience. But Dorico scripts can be recorded as macros without needing any coding knowledge, so pull requests are probably too high a barrier to entry.

Maybe a dedicated Gmail account for submissions?

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As a developer I use GitHub regularly, so I can’t view this as someone unfamiliar, but it seems to me if one can navigate a macro recording UI, one should be able to handle the GitHub UI. The concepts of source control would be new, but I think that’s a lot easier than some of the concepts in music notation.

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In any case, my experience with my own and other‘s Finale Lua scripts was that there usually was a great need for discussion, as development is an ongoing and evolving process.

I would be glad if any future repository would be bound to a forum with easy access for the non-tech-savvy user. That‘s why Git would not be my favorite. Ideally, a repo could be attached or be in close connection to this Steinberg forum, as this is already the place where Dorico things get discussed.

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