--- On Thu, 10/28/10, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:
> From: Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> > Subject: Re: problematic commit > To: "Valentin Villenave" <valen...@villenave.net> > Cc: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancs...@yahoo.com>, lilypond-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010, 12:11 AM > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:13:14PM > +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Graham Percival > > <gra...@percival-music.ca> > wrote: > > > Zing! That was a cheap shot. > > > > What can I say? You taught me well, Master :-) > > Yeah, but I keep it classy, Valentine! I mean, making > fun of > somebody's girly name is high culture, whereas pointing out > a lack > of "bling" in an open-source project is just plain rude. > > > As for changing direction of ties, I really really > doubt that it's > > more easily achieved in Finale than in Lily. At least, > it wasn't back > > when I did use these apps. It's just <ctrl-f> for "flip". > > Dude, there's a ton of things that Finale does > easier. You want > some symbol somewhere? Just drag it there with the > mouse, look at > it, drag it somewhere else. > > Now, you know, and I know, that this doesn't scale nicely > to > dealing with a hundred-page score, particularly if you want > to > change margins or page sizes or whatnot -- you'd need to > manually > redo all your absolutely positioned marks. In Finale, text, tempi, articulations, etc. are all connected to notes or staves. Well, there's a tool to position absolutely but it's only used for titles. > But I'd > bet that most > Finale users don't do anything more complicated than a > 3-page > arrangement of "Jingle Bells" for SATB+piano, so the > "scaling" > argument is hard to make. They did a study about that and it has been scientifically proven. > > LilyPond is not the best tool for every person in the > world, and > there's nothing wrong with admitting that. That's true, but LilypondTool + Lily is a GUI. If the ruler tool could automatically fill in the context/grob/property for markup and articulations, one would have pretty much the same feature as click-dragging stuff in Finale. And if that feature were present, I doubt anyone would complain about the resulting efficiency in score entry. It's simply a useful tool whether it's in Finale, Lilypond, or Microsoft ScoreKeeper Pro*. -Jonathan * (tm) > > Cheers, > - Graham > _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
