Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes: > Hi David, > >>> As for 'best tool for the job', what job are you referring to? Are >>> you sure it is the job that everyone else is trying to do? >> >> Getting the music from your head to paper. > > Not that my opinion matters here, but... :) > > That is the *least* important part of Lilypond for me -- in fact, I > couldn't care any less about it, from the point of view of my usage.
But when trying to hook people on a large scale on Lilypond, you'll find that there is a reason Lilypond was your tool of choice, and not theirs. > I know this is not the way everyone uses Lilypond, and I love > open-source software precisely for the reason that everyone has an > equal kick at the can, even if it means that "too many" resources are > going to something I don't (and likely won't ever) need. The more > popular Lilypond is, the better chance I probably have of getting my > Lilypond needs fulfilled. However, for me personally -- i.e., how I > will spend my assistance and sponsorship time, money, and effort -- > trying to make Lilypond a better *composing* tool is a total > non-issue, whereas fixing the innumerable *engraving* problems > remaining to be solved is everything. preview-latex has changed my needs for pen and paper for the creation of quite a bit of mathematical content. At some point of time, a tool might change your workflow. Most really tough work still happens on paper for me. But good tools can shift the easier work. >> Well, I hate doing serious work outside of Emacs. > > I don't like Emacs: I've tried it for a number of things -- Lilypond, > LaTeX (number theory papers), etc. -- and found that it got in my way > constantly. Different strokes... My father is 76, and a theoretical physicist. preview-latex made Emacs his preferred editor. It is not rare for him to produce papers with 1000+ formulae. Emacs basically is an editing platform. If you can't warm to its generic feature set, for a particular application space there might exist modes and tools that make a decisive difference in usability. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
