Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes: > Hi David, > >> Who is going to learn reading notes, let alone writing them? Of course >> LilyPond is only for geeks, because it is just geeks who bother with >> writing music rather than listening to it. > > In other words, composers who use Lilypond are a [very, very small] > subset of a [very small] subset of all people.
It is rather the rule than the exception that whenever somebody feels the need to "rephrase" what I have been writing, it ends up being utterly different. It would appear that I have problems expressing myself clearly. People creating typeset music are certainly a much smaller number than those consuming music in any form. This much smaller number will contain a higher ratio of people willing to write down basic LilyPond notation than the general populace, or rather than the ratio of people among the general populace willing to write input for any batch processing system (say, LaTeX). A full-blood composer will not let himself be turned away by the necessity to deal with whatever it takes to create scores according to his vision, like a full-blood painter will not let himself be discouraged by the necessity to deal with brushes and paints. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
