Ahh this is like the old arguments I used to hear when I worked for a
small Typesetting/reprographics house at the end of the 1980's to the
end of the 1990's.
We would get a 'new' designer turn up and he would then proceed to tell
us that all the 'real' typesetters/repro houses were using XYZ.app and
that new fangled stuff we used (Aldus Pagemaker - remember that?) was
never going to be as good. Then Quark Xpress came along and then
Indesign and then and then...each new hire we got would tell us that
'the industry' used something that we weren't and how much better it was
etc etc. I won't even begin to tell you about the CMYK pre-process
technology arguments (I do remember though being told that this silly
PDF technology was useless).
Fortunately we had a tight fisted boss, as heaven knows how much wasted
money we would have spent on all this different software. We actually
used whatever tool was easiest and quickest for the specific job in
hand. We had some really skilled designers who could produce lovely work
with any of the tools or even a combination of them.
As a case in point, I remember one of our designers cutting and pasting
(albeit using Aldus Freehand - remember that?) two or three pages of
music for a local carol concert to hand out to the public, it was two
staves and she literally would take whatever font it was that showed all
the music glyphs, outline them in Freehand and then manually drag/drop
them in place over a tiff file that has been a photocopy of an original.
Then once it was all in place removed the tiff file and tweaked it by eye.
Took her a day but it looked lovely. I didn't know anything about music
at all back then (not even sure she did either), and thought that was
how all music was typeset.
James
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
No, that's not true.
Score is like a notation drawing program, so you have very precise
control over the musical elements' positions.
If you create a simple score, LilyPond's output is clearly superior.
If you are creating a complicated one, than Score becomes a
hand-engraving tool. In that case YOU must produce the superior
engraving. Which is surely possible with LilyPond - with less effort I
think.
Bert
Bobber wrote:
I have been having a discussion with a small publisher who uses the
music manuscript program called Score. He says that neither Lilypond
or Finale can produce engraving that is comparable to Score. And that
most of the major music publishers in the world use Score.
Is anyone familiar with Score and what makes it superior?
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