On 01/12/13 09:45, David Kastrup wrote:
Finale output is ugly to the degree where it is distracting readability,
particularly for instrumentalists. Sibelius' corporate parent has fired
its core developer team in the UK, including its original authors.
Steinberg does not yet have a finished product on market. Most other
players are fringe players.
The situation is not really all that unfavorable for LilyPond.
The default output of Finale is indeed ugly, and I was reminded that Sibelius
too has its problems when I recently received a score from a friend which would
surely have looked much better done in Lilypond.
The thing is, though, both are so easy to tweak, it doesn't matter. My
Bärenreiter scores engraved (presumably) with Finale may be less beautiful than
the obviously hand-engraved earlier publications, but they are entirely
satisfactory so far as reading goes. Most practical readability problems arise
because of publishers (or composers) who put inadequate work into copyediting
parts, not because of the software used.
I don't say this to discourage anyone, but just to note that what matters to the
end user is very often the facility to get the score _just as they want it_, not
the ability of the program to automatically second-guess their desires.
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