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.
>
>
>
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