Thank you John. Very interesting indeed. Cheers, Pierre 2016-05-20 3:22 GMT+02:00 jrethorst <[email protected]>:
> About ten years ago a group of us decided to do a comparison of the most > popular notation programs, to see how each program looked in print. > Although > one program's output can be made to look much like another's, some aspects > of that are easier to do, and it’s interesting how the personality of the > pages varies. > > I mentioned this to Abraham Lee, a noted designer of music fonts, who > replied: > > > I couldn’t agree more! It really is amazing to see how each application > > embeds its own personality into the score’s appearance, beyond what is > > “correct” or not. Truly fascinating, indeed! > > Although feature set and interface may be more important to some in the > choice of an engraving program, this comparison was done for those > especially interested in high quality publication. > > Unsolicited comments on "Six Music Notation Programs" included “Absolutely > amazing! . . . Interesting! . . . This is certainly a worth while endeavor > . > . . a really great idea and I’m glad that someone is taking the time to do > it the right way . . . I love seeing how each program handles music.” > > It's time for an update, both to include two new popular programs and to > revise other programs' samples using the latest versions. So "Seven Music > Notation Programs", with a one-page score for classical guitar as done in > Finale, LilyPond, MuseScore, Notion, Overture, Score and Sibelius, is at: > > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64325719/Seven%20Music%20Notation%20Programs.pdf > > Many thanks to Abraham Lee, who did the LilyPond sample. > > Enjoy, > John R. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/ANN-Seven-Music-Notation-Programs-tp190780.html > Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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