Francois Planiol <alicuota...@gmail.com> writes: > Dear Dmytro, > > 2011/8/19, Dmytro O. Redchuk <brownian....@gmail.com>: >> *very* professional ... >> (composers, musicians, choir-meisters, specialists in music's history >> etc-etc); however, they've never heard about lilypond before I told them, >> and >> they'd never use it after I told... >> >> Probably, because of some/many of them are 60 and above, who knows... >> Anyway, >> I would never say they are stupid. > > They just show they are too specialised before and too comfortable > after. This is an intellectual quality to search around the field you > are working in (and engraving is indeed an important crossing of > graphical and musical art), and this is an intellectual quality to > recognize that minority is not synonym of false.
Well, you have to be realistic. Skills run in families. Traditionally, writers, typesetters, printers were all different jobs. As were composers, engravers, printers, publishers. "print-ready" tends to be an abomination since it focuses most qualifications on a single person without suitable experiences on the job, assuming that some computer tool will magically provide all the necessary skills and expertise. Which is hogwash. Lilypond does not put up this pretense. But that does not make it appealing to those people who don't want to learn both tool and trade for something which is not a priority for them. But Lilypond is a reasonably nice tool as long as you don't need to revert to tweaks, exactly because you can focus on writing music first rather than having to meddle with typesetting it. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
