As several users have responded asking for feedback why I stopped with lilypond (or criticism). Here's my 2cents worth.
During the last four weeks I have been restoring a piece. It has come to me in several different parts. Handwriting, several voices just as extraction parts. The publisher asked for goodlooking, editable scores. Which seemed like a good point to start with lilypond. I started with the simplest piece, a voice with organ. Laying it all out wasn't the problem. I am familiar with programming, and familiar with other markup languages. From day one I ran into trouble with notating what was asked. I have found the list very friendly and very helpful. In the end all my questions were answered, and all notating puzzles solved. But the fact I had to use several of these solutions (or work arounds) in one score (or even in one bar) made inputting very tedious. The last piece I did was a short piece of 25 bars, four voices. Took me two days to complete. And although I can see that the speed will get greater, at this point I'm only frustrated. I created all 10 movements in Sibelius, took me about 5 evenings. I have created the 4 smallest of them with lilypond, took me 20 evenings. So I take all the blame. I'm just to slow. On the practical side the work just could not wait. On the plus I found, good looking scores, very flexible On the minus I found, very tedious, time-consuming and heavily relying on work-arounds. Hope this will give some inside. I won't say I'll never try again, but not just now. Hou je goed / Keep well, Erik > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick McCarty [mailto:pnor...@gmail.com] > Sent: woensdag 11 november 2009 0:39 > To: Erik Appeldoorn > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Re: quit > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Erik Appeldoorn <ursus.k...@ziggo.nl> > wrote: > > I've been around for a short while only. A month with lilypond and 3 > weeks > > on the list. Made a couple of scores, quite complex ones. But for each > and > > every one I had to fiddle for hours and hours trying to grab all the > > details. All the while I had Sibelius at the ready and whenever I did > > fallback finished the score in record time. This is not going to > continue I > > thought. I'd rather have a score that looks 85% than no score at all. So > for > > now it's quits with Lilypond. Perhaps I'll be back, I just don't know. > All > > that helped, many thanks. I have now disabled the posts from the list, > any > > reply have to be personal. > > While it's interesting that you have stopped using LilyPond, I wish > you would have posted some constructive feedback or criticism. > > Do you have suggestions to improve the documentation or the program > itself? > > Thanks, > Patrick _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
