On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Pierre-Luc Gauthier [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n187606...@n5.nabble.com> wrote:
> 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. > Thanks for sharing, Pierre. That's a great insight. - Abraham -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Lose-the-tagline-permanently-tp187587p187607.html Sent from the Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
