2007/8/23, Jack Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > While OpenOffice isn't technically a freeware version of Microsoft Office, > I don't know how else to describe it to folks who have never heard of it > or used it. And since I wrote these intro notes, I am more inclined > to use GIMP for image editing and Scribus for general layout. The > general point I was hoping to convey to someone is that it doesn't > require hundreds of dollars investment in software to produce professional > looking songbooks, thanks to lilypond.
Absolutely! As for the way you describe OpenOffice, maybe using "equivalent" instead of "version" would be more convenient and just as self-explanatory. But it's just one word :) > I have a specfic market I am trying to interest in having songbooks > created, and I will have a better idea over the next couple of months > the level of interest within that market. When you do, feel free to keep the community informed: it's always extremely interesting when open-source projects manage to reach the commercial market. > Making the source files files available is a very good idea but it > provides a bit of a conundrum. Here's an example using a project > I am currently involved with creating a collection of notated traditional > fiddle songs. The person who I am doing the notation for has decided, > after I've gotten halfway throught the set of tunes, that compensation > for my time is too expensive and if I could just spend an hour teaching > how to use the package, he could learn to do it himself. Fair > enough. You can very well, in the future, wait until the job is done (and until you get paid) to release the source code. This is what I would probably do. Anyway, thanks for sharing your experience with us. Regards, Valentin _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
