As has already been mentioned in this discussion, the UK education market is HUGE. All high schools are pretty much expected to provide access to decent music technology, and Sibelius has a near-universal presence on computers in music classrooms.
On 08:24, Fri 03 Aug 2012, Francois Planiol wrote: > Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 08:24:29 -0500 > From: Francois Planiol <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down > To: Lucas Gonze <[email protected]>, [email protected] > List-Id: LilyPond user discussion <lilypond-user.gnu.org> > > Not so small that you cant do enough money with it. Sib and finale has > grown as sequencers and interesting enough for many midi-ists, > specially for hobbyists. I am sure a big part of the market of sib > (definitely easier than finale and with a big music-library) was not > engraving and not so professional. > > Francois > > 2012/8/2, Lucas Gonze <[email protected]>: > > The market for music notation tools is very small! That's a major obstacle. > > > > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Francois Planiol <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> If this is faster (depends, entering notes and lyrics without tuning > >> the output is in lilypond faster) so Sibelius is victim of the same > >> capitalism it serves. No cry. > >> > >> But if Sib-programmers are smart, they would go startup... > >> > >> Francois > >> > >> 2012/8/2, Lucas Gonze <[email protected]>: > >>> I'm an ex-Sibelius user. Even though I know Lilypond syntax pretty > >>> well I still find that it would be much faster to use Sibelius. > >>> > >>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Francois Planiol <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> I know quite a bunch of of Sibelius users and their argumentation, > >>>> mostly are writing arrangements or compositions directly in the > >>>> computer. They just want to click the glyphes on a pentagrama > >>>> directly. I suppose a part them would not mind if Lily takes the hand > >>>> over spacing and other decisions, but these would only be conviced > >>>> with a pentagrama-frontend and a directly accessible midi-playback. > >>>> They think they have no time to learn a new method of writing music... > >>>> and want one installer for all the stuff. > >>>> On the other side, Sibelius will still work a while... > >>>> Francois > >>>> > >>>> 2012/8/2, Lucas Gonze <[email protected]>: > >>>>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling > >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>> More generally than that, I think the reason to discuss is to > >>>>>> _discover_ > >>>>>> the > >>>>>> areas where you can cooperate. There are obvious areas of > >>>>>> interaction > >>>>>> -- > >>>>>> e.g. enabling Lilypond output for MuseScore and ensuring that it gets > >>>>>> updated effectively in response to Lilypond syntax changes. > >>>>> > >>>>> I have considered using Lilypond as a back end for front end hacking, > >>>>> but the compile time from .ly to .svg is way too high. > >>>>> > >>>>> Is it architecturally possible to make a significant amount of > >>>>> overhead go away? Are incremental compiles plausible? > >>>>> > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> lilypond-user mailing list > >>>>> [email protected] > >>>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >>>>> > >>> > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
