Hi all, > Seems to me it has been quite successful in its goals of making sheet music > easily available for free, all works in the public domain or under creative > commons licenses, in (user-editable, user-improvable) LilyPond format, pdf, > and midi — all with volunteer labor. Looks like the total is over 1900 works > now.
Other than the “user-editable, user-improvable” issue, all of those things are far better done by IMSLP. Put another way, looking at IMSLP (with 310,000 scores) and Mutopia (with 1,900), the shine quickly comes off Mutopia for anyone except the handful of hardcore DIY musicians who (e.g.,) want to take a violin piece from Mutopia and make a guitar arrangement. I think it would be far better — and probably result in better visibility/marketing for Lilypond — if Mutopia were merged into IMSLP. (There appears to have been a thought in this direction at some point, but not any more; cf. http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Community_Projects/Mutopia_score_archive). Then, for important works, there would be the Lilypond source, side-by-side with scans of existing editions. But it seems this was considered, and rejected for exactly the reasons that Mutopia now flounders (cf. http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP_talk:Community_Projects/Mutopia_score_archive). > On Apr 20, 2015, at 5:58 PM, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> wrote: > > I think it’s mainly three problems: > – Lilypond versions, as Paul already mentioned. Yes. > – Coding style: the lilypond code I saw till now from Mutopia mostly gave me > a real headache, because it was excessively hard to read, inefficient or > hacky. Which makes reusing it an unpleasant experience. Yes. I would call real code reuse — certainly anything other than the most trivial cut-and-paste exercise — essentially impossible. > – Visual quality of the output: Many of the scores very effectively display > that using Lilypond does not warrant making beautiful scores Yes. Urs and I are hoping to change this (dramatically, for the better, in one fell swoop) with the openLilyLib stylesheet project. But for now, the defaults in Lilypond are far from publication quality (IMO). Cheers, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
