Cesar Penagos wrote: > [...] I'm thinking in a feature that I consider very usefully, and > that all the mayor engraver programs have, and lily has not. This > feature refers to the possibility to make Title page [...]
Just my two cents: What I've seen in other engravers (which isn't much, I have to admit) is merely the possibility to leave a blank page and put some objects on it. Free positioning and sizing and all, but that's nothing special in a GUI program with drag&drop. It's all there already - you just leave out the notes. This is actually already possible with LilyPond, too. It isn't too comfortable, but that's a drawback of the kind of text-only workflow which Lily uses. It isn't easy to design a non-standard title with LaTeX or similars, too, but that's -- to some extent -- actually wanted. Not much choice => not much errors. If you really want nice title pages, won't you do better just using the text processor or DTP program of your choice and get superior results in less time? Then append the scores - finished. > [I] have not installed the Latex program because of the large it is [...] This way, you just need (for example) pdftk and, possibly, PDFCreator, a GhostScript frontend (google for them). Both are small, free and easy to use; if you use LilyPond, you probably have GhostScript installed anyway. Apart from the user's point of view, I suspect that the people behind LilyPond don't want to reinvent the wheel. If you look at other open source projects -- Mozilla might be the best example -- you might find that a plentora of features doesn't delight the programmers. If you want it good -- and that's what Lily is designed for -- you have to invest large amounts of time for interfaces, programming, debugging, documentation, ...; time you might feel to be better used for the main task of LilyPond: _music_ engraving. It's kind of the idea behind the number of Unix commands: "Do [only] one thing, [and/but] do it well." And, despite my very little experience with Lily, I'm very convinced that Lily _does_ it well... Well, my two cents have grown longer than expected... _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
