On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Federico Bruni <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/5/29 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email protected]>: >> >> Just to make sure you have seen >> >> >> http://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/b-sendorfer-sponsors-open-goldberg-project-providing-concert-grand-ceus-recording-technology-0 >> >> Wouldn't LilyPond have been a technically superior choice for this >> sponsoring project? What are we missing? >> > > What do you mean with "technically superior"? It's about the output? > I think it's LilyPond output. Can you confirm? > http://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/node/191 > > Maybe you mean that writing a .ly file would have allowed better tweaking? > (I have no idea of the MuseScore workflow) > > Or it's about the input? > If it's technically superior because it's text-based, I would agree > with you for a number of reasons. > In this particular case, there's another benefit: no need to write > from scratch because Golden Variations are in Mutopia > http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/make-table.cgi?collection=bachgb&preview=1 > > Anyway, I think that the main reason why MuseScore is much more > popular than LilyPond is simply because it's a GUI program. > Considering your efforts in Schikkers List, I can imagine that you may > agree with me. > +1 I think too GUI is the main reason too. I love Lilypond and I use it for all my projects (I'm trying to setup a small publishing house which will be lilypond-only), and I'm pushing it strongly for the uni I'm affiliated with, for the moment without success. We publish a series of baroque-centered books, and all the layout is done in-house (no professionals involved) with finale or sibelius. Generally speaking, my colleagues just want to point-and-click, move around stuff and so on. It does not matter that what I do in lily automagically can take hours in finale - when I show the text input people just go away scared. I tried many times demoing a project conversion from finale to lily, where you get almost magically a very nice output. When people learn they cannot click and move stuff on the screen, they just say "no way" and back up. (on the plus side, I will probably editing one of the next volumes, and the condition I posed was to use lily exclusively).
Cheers Rodolfo ps for David: did you receive my email? _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
