On 28/04/16 12:43, Chris Yate wrote: > On 27 April 2016 at 19:25, Anthonys Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: >> >> And the reality is, most people HERE, including the most important ones! use >> simple, plain-text, email clients. >> There's a reason why Outlook Lusers are not welcome on most mailing lists, >> and that's because the result is incomprehensible, pretty fast! >> >> Why is it that you get so many idiots who think that "ooh, shiny" is the >> same as "new, improved". >> Lilypond is not aimed at the "ooh shiny" brigade, so if you want to be part >> of that, please go somewhere else ... > > Respectfully, I disagree. Having a shiny AND functional tool (no smut > here, I'm British) is perfectly possible, and wanting to use one > doesn't make you a magpie. It's snobbery -- you might say 'inverted' > snobbery -- to suggest so. > > "Shiny" isn't necessarily "improved" but they're not mutually > exclusive. Would you suggest Frescobaldi is *not* a big improvement in > the User Interface for Lilypond development? > Horses for courses - if you like it, great.
But actually, for *my* use case, it probably really IS NOT an improvement! I've never used it, never tried it, never had any desire to. Can you use it to enter a score, and then get it to generate all the individual parts for you? "Q. What's the main reason for having a window manager? "A. It means I can have multiple text terminals open simultaneously!" For some people, like me, that is the way my brain is wired. Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
