Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> writes:
Hi David,
That's one view, but I have been using LilyPond for professional
engraving for years and I am now moving into MIDI for generation
of
MIDI as the principal end output, for film scores and so on.
That's a
valid musical compositional use case. The engraved score is
_not_
always the principal object. …
I agree that an engraved score is not always each
person’s principal aim. But it doesn’t follow that every piece of
software ought to be the right one for every possible aim;
Firefox’s double-entry bookkeeping is atrocious, and writing
novels in Photoshop is way harder than it needs to be. :) Nor
does it follow that all music composition software developers need
a worldwide agreement on which use-cases must be covered.
I don’t think there’s an unlimited number of people with both the
skill and the desire to work on the main structure of Lilypond,
and to me it makes more sense for them to intentionally neglect a
secondary function than to hold back or limit a primary one.
--
David Rogers