craigbakalian wrote:
Hi All,
I am a composer who is using Lilypond exclusively. I have used it for
a choir and piano piece, flute and piano sonatas, piano pieces, numerous
chamber works, and a full three movement trumpet concerto. It already
is real world usage.
It's great that composers like you are comfortable with Lily! It's also
true that there are composers who will not use Lily because of her
complexity and geekiness. I have met more than one. It's also true
that some aspects of LilyPond have gotten much simpler over the several
years that I have used it.
I don't get the topic. Do you mean compete with Finale? If you do, I
think you are foolish. Leave Lilypond the way it is, with no gui-ed up
shlock.
We are close to having the best both worlds. Just as we have Unix/LInux
which doesn't absolutely need X Windows we have Lily and we have tools
like JEdit and LilyPondTool and others and conversion tools which allow
people who are not comfortable with Lily as she is.
I totally agree that Lily should not have any GUI features and I don't
think that many who maintain and improve her would want that either.
OTOH if tools like JEdit, etc. could develop into a full GUI for those
who need that a lot more people would be served and it would certainly
compete with Finale.
Paul Scott
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