Hi Gilles, > But why _LilyPond_, if you agreed that quality will can (never!) match that > produced with the tool that produced the scores available on IMSLP ? > > Why not that other tool?
What "other tool"? Hand-engraving with metal punch ca. 1852-1952? Because that’s the standard we’re measuring against by comparing to IMSLP. No cross-platform computer application I know of — proprietary or open source — has better output than Lilypond. In fact, even with just a basic stylesheet applied to it, my musical theatre Piano/Conductor scores rival (and in most cases surpass) what the big publishing houses (e.g., Warner-Chappell) put out for sale. This is one of the reasons I laud Urs’s attempt to get some of those houses to use Lilypond: it would actually improve their current output! Cheers, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
