Noeck <noeck.marb...@gmx.de> writes: > Hi Abraham, > > I agree with you. I always change it or remove it for the following reasons: > > 1) It is in *English* and would be the only English part in my otherwise > German score – that looks just unprofessional. That's the most important > part for me.
So let's try cutting it down to something language independent and short. Like 𝄵 www.lilypond.org > 2) In general such a phrase looks *unprofessional* to me – more like > some crappy shareware from old times (that Apple does it with "sent > from my iPhone" doesn't make it better). Shrug. Professional and unheard of does not help us. > 3) People might be *scared away* because of this. And as people know > this from demo versions, some think you can not or are not allowed to > remove this line they don't like. > What I usually do is to set the tag line to "LilyPond 2.19" or the thing > below [1]. That is a) language independent b) short c) contains all > relevant information. Well: > [1]: > tagline = \markup > \with-url #"http://lilypond.org"; \line { > "Lilypond" > #(string-join > (map (lambda (x) (if (symbol? x) > (symbol->string x) > (number->string x))) > (list-head (ly:version) 2)) > ".") > "– www.lilypond.org" > } > > % for online distribution the www part can be dropped, it is intended > % for printed scores which don't profit from the link. The fate of PDF is to be printed. Particularly those who have never heard of LilyPond are rather likely to receive a piece of paper rather than a PDF file. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
