Urs Liska <[email protected]> writes: > Sibelius 8 has arrived - and gives an implicit answer to the questions > that have arisen after they let their collected development competence > go ... > http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/sibelius-8-is-here/ > > Even according to the (independent) Sibelius blog the major feature of > the new version bump is the licensing model: > "Even though the “new Sibelius“, released today, bears the version > number 8.0 under the hood, it’s clear why Avid is keen to avoid using > it: Sibelius 8 is the thinnest release ever for a Sibelius product that > turns the left-most column on the odometer." > > I feel that sounds quite desperate ...
Well, it is a skeptical _outsider's_ blog, not in any way connected with Sibelius' company other than being a customer. The release announcement from Avid will certainly sound different. We are talking about a new developer team, and they have integrated annotations as a feature. That's not messing with the core part of the typesetter, but it's also not totally disconnected. Sounds about par regarding new achievements for a team that needs to make itself acquainted with the entire code base after the original authors have been let go. Interactive notetaking is a core feature of the Scora music stand <URL:http://scora.net> based on LilyPond. Since LilyPond itself does not have a GUI, this is probably built into the viewing backend. More generic facilities that would help support this kind of note addition in Frescobaldi, Denemo, Laborejo and whatever else might be of interest to let this kind of graphical note survive a retypesetting. At any rate: Sibelius and LilyPond are so little comparable in their approach to typesetting and user interface that we can indeed count Sibelius 8 as an important change with relation to LilyPond: a licensing scheme change is much more likely to push users over the rather large edge than anything else. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
