Might I add, LilyPond is a rather exotic alternative compared to most other commercial project. The project as a whole needs visibility to gain recognition. Could this default tag be seen as a survival feature for the project?
I am trying to show (or just explain) my LilyPond/Git/LaTeX workflow to my friends who are fully into music writing; they just don't see it worth the trouble. But when they see the quality of the result, they are thrown away. I explicitly want them to know that it was LilyPond made. As for LilyPond users that do not care, I strongly suggest that it be tagged as a LilyPond made score by default. Back when LilyPond was just an possible alternative in the back of my mind, while wandering through the web, I started paying attention at that tag at the bottom. The more I saw that tag, the more I realized that LilyPond could indeed used and therefore be usable by most anybody. My extremely non technology savvy mother knows about LibreOffice. Most of my professional music colleagues have never even heard of LilyPond. I think it is an issue. My default bottom tag I use is quite extensive but in the context in which I work demands an extremely clear version of a given arrangement as it changes for week to week. I happen to think that this default tag line in a bit too much though. I do think that just "LilyPond 2.19.36" with the link inside it is quite enough information to give to someone actually interested in how this music was written. At one extreme I think that cocky advertisement obviously does not have its place in a FOSS project, and on the other, I think that LilyPond needs the visibility. But then again, in all my project I \include "../myLilypondSlippers.ily" and I am good to go with a tag line I actually want to use. Thanks for the conversation. -- *Pierre-Luc Gauthier*
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