[...] > > 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. [...]
I'm 40, and use LilyPond primarily for my own original compositions, both for typesetting and for midi output. On a few occasions I've transcribed a few simple pieces here and there, mainly for my own studies, and sometimes short snippets of other composers' pieces for analysis/critique purposes. Since I'm a programmer by profession, I have no problem with using LilyPond's text-only input directly (via vim) -- in fact, I prefer working that way. The text-based input format has made it easy to write helper programs and scripts that allow me to work around limitations in LilyPond's midi output capabilities, and I've managed to get quite decent midi output that way. (In fact, I've been able to automate the rather elaborate process of splitting a score into instrument choirs rendered into separate midi files, to work around the midi 15-channel limit, automatically render each of them via a software synth and merging them back into a single audio file using the audio processing program sox. The flexibility of LilyPond's input format greatly helped in making this possible.) --T _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
