I'm still a LilyPond newbie... As a retired Bell Labs engineer, I can honestly say that I have found LilyPond to be harder than learning vi, troff/nroff, and shell scripts. (Maybe it's age, maybe it's having been out of the field for 7+ years, or maybe it's just that I was never an actual programmer...)
I am a volunteer church musician and use LilyPond to "scribble out" music for services - usually for setting alternate words to a given harmonization (with adjustments) for the cantor & guitarists, for writing viola parts for a given melody, or for setting knew set of words to an alternate accompaniment (so I can simultaneously sing one and play the other). I found LilyPond more than I could handle, so I use Frescobaldi when preparing snippets, since it helps me with debugging & lets me see what I've written (never underestimate immediate gratification... Or immediate "whoops!" feedback). I learned of the Utopia project when using a LilyPond engraving of BWV 680 (J.S.Bach). Since it's still new (6 months or so), I do find it a challenge... Karen S. Billings CAGO > On Sep 10, 2015, at 7:00 AM, Peter Bjuhr <peterbj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote: >>> This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of LilyPond users >>> >and >>> >developers? >> Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty ... > > I send in this reminder not because I'm especially interested in ages, but it > would be interesting to know more about stuff like editor usage and if > LilyPond is used for original compositions or for engraving existing > compositions. > > Best > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
