On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:46 AM, <lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org> wrote: > James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm attaching a couple of samples of today's typesetting work. The >> first is pretty well marked up. The second is mostly just the notes >> for now (needs articulation, dynamics and some adjustments of tie >> curves -- later). As in earlier work on this piece, it's kind of >> shocking how little tweaking I have to do, even for moderately complex >> notation. > > "Moderately" complex. Now there are people whom I am not an enabler > for. Hardcore programmers.
Oh, pshaw. I'm no hardcore programmer. Softcore at best :-p I meant "moderately complex" in that this is several steps beyond a lead sheet or four-part chorale, but rather simpler than, say, Mike Solomon's work in lilypond... Not looking for an enabler. The things I'm reacting to, which make me want to contribute, are: - The wow factor. There isn't much software that truly knocks my socks off *every time* I use it. Supercollider totally changed the way I approach composing. Lilypond has done something I thought was impossible when I was using -- hm, that's not right, let's try "fighting with" -- Finale: It's actually made it enjoyable to typeset music on the computer. ! - One of the senior developers works on Lilypond basically full-time, without institutional support. Nobody is doing that in supercollider-land. (Two developers are working full-time on a new editor environment for SC, with grant funding, not the same thing.) I give back to the SC community mainly by answering a lot of questions on the mailing list. I'm not so expert a lilypond user (though I think I've gotten past the worst of the learning curve) but want to give something back here too. hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
