Hi all,
while Janek is writing down his experiences with a complex engraving
challenge I thought it would be a good idea to do some honest
comparisons with other tools face with the same challenge.
Janek is somewhat disappointed by aspects of LilyPond's performance, and
I have the idea it would be good to put him (and his readers) in the
right perspective by having some actual comparisons. While I have to
admit he's right with his criticisms I assume in some (or all) aspects
other tools would have failed completely ;-)
And as I'm not happy with this unbacked assumption I would like to have
some volunteers willing to engrave a few complex examples with Finale
and Sibelius (up-to-date versions and sufficient experience required).
I'm not sure if this will lead to publications in our blog, but it's
possible.
And I'm not interested in simple proof of LilyPond's superiority but
honest comparisons.
So if you're using one of the mentioned tools or any other engraving
software, feel comfortable enough with it to do serious engraving of
complex piano music and are interested in such a benchmark, please
contact me.
What we'd be interested in is basically:
- What does the program achieve with only the musical structure entered
(no manual tweaking)?
- how problematic/tedious/reliable is it to improve the sample to
publication quality?
Looking forward ...
Urs
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