Urs Liska writes: > Am Samstag, den 20.04.2013, 12:13 +0100 schrieb Graham Percival: >> >> By contrast, using a text-based tool (especially in conjunction >> with source control such as git) leaves me in control. If >> anything breaks (which it does occasionally), then I can easily >> compare the previous (working) input to the current version and >> figure how what I did wrong. >> >> - Graham > > This is speaking from my heart :-) > > Of course it isn't fair to keep a judgment in one's heart that is based > on software more than a decade old, but my most prominent recollection > of my work with Finale is: > - Enter some music > - Make corrections: > - Move an object > - switch directions (of stems, slurs ...) > - break beams manually > - Hit "Update Layout" > - Tear my hair out because Finale reverted (as an average) > half of my manual decisions. > Then I didn't have the faintest idea that there is something > like a 'text format' where such decisions could be > stored explicitely
Attaboy! Now you're talking. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Hall _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
