David Kastrup wrote > Is he majoring in music or in Sibelius? I think that is the key question. If it was about music, they may even submit hand-written scores (which is not a bad thing at all!). And LilyPond produces PDF files everybody can use.
Maybe I'm getting old, but in my day and age, universities were no extended schools but real universities, and this was also the world of GNU et al. In natural science, it was common (and still is) to use TeX, just because it was light-years ahead when it came to mathematical formulas. The result after many years: *Major scientific publishing houses use TeX.* In contrast, some universities obviously don't even provide LilyPond (why???). LilyPond takes much less space that a fully-blown Finale or sibelius. And it's open and free. So why not offer it as an alternative? I appreciate that many musicians may not like the cryptic text-based entry of LilyPond, but: As universities totally rely on Finale/Sibelius and often don't even know of LilyPond, it's no wonder LilyPond has a hard time. In former times, universities were a place and a source of open and free software, now they seem to rely on commercial software and don't even care about it. Students are always in need of money, so why being forced into overly expensive software? Last year, a young conductor (university degree) was totally overwhelmed by a LilyPond score and he asked: "This is looking outrageously good, that's incredible, I just can't believe it! Which program did you use?" - "LilyPond!" - - - ??? [never heard of it]. No comment. Doesn't make it easier. Just my two pennies' worth, Torsten -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
