On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 10:33  PM, Michael Edwards wrote:

> [Philip:]
> I think it's best to be in a medium where your heart is already at.

> [Myself:]
>      What kind of medium do you mean?

Work.

>      As I indicated in another posting, I think one or two 
> people got composing
> and engraving confused, because the two often go together.  But 
> I was talking
> about engraving music other than my own as a source of income - 
> not as a
> creative outlet my heart would be set on.  *Composing* would be 
> *only* that to
> me, and not a source of income (which would be an unexpected 
> bonus if it came to
> me).


I was talking about engraving music. Sometimes I call it music 
typesetting. If you were inclined in the area I suggest that you 
would have noticed how most people format their email and quote 
replies on this list and adjusted your posts to the norm 
accordingly. That's because people inclined towards high test 
engraving notice these details *everywhere*. So I conclude that 
because such factors are not already within your purview, it 
would be an uphill battle for you to compete with folks who came 
to the profession because that's what they already *knew* before 
they ever had a music application. That's why folks on this list 
can get real hot and bothered about a freakin' 2 or 3 EVPU 
displacement of some elements in their printouts. It's because 
their heart is in the perception of those kinds of details...



Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca

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