Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-21 Thread Dave Phillips
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Hi Dave, Hi Jan ! Sorry for this delayed reply, I've been a bit overwhelmed here. Too much work, too much family stuff going on, too much of everything except spare time. If your objection to LWN is re: someone else's comment on my articles Yeah, that'

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-06 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
Here's the Saraband from essay in Finale 2008, which is only one version of Finale behind the current one. I put it together while contemplating Graham's grand web project. Andrew On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Graham Percival > wrote:

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > As for LilyPond vs. Sibelius: if we do it, we should do it > objectively.  One thing we might do in the new website is to have > examples of notation from the latest software (lilypond stable, > finale 20XY, sibelius 20AB, etc) and point o

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op vrijdag 03-04-2009 om 23:27 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Graham Percival: > I really don't see anything in the comments that we need to be > worried about. You're probably right. I have a hard time getting used to uninformed posts on lwn. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond - The mus

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-03 Thread Graham Percival
I really don't see anything in the comments that we need to be worried about. I mean, do you think that Microsoft programmers freak out when they read (-1, troll) comments on slashdot? If there were intelligent, well-argued comments on LWN dissing lilypond, I might care, but I haven't seen any ye

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op vrijdag 03-04-2009 om 15:50 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Valentin Villenave: Hi Valentin, > On a personal note: LOL, hilarious. Thanks Valentin. We should have added this with much pump and circumstance to our new website/what users think page two days ago :-) Maybe next year? Greeting

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-03 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Mats" == Mats Bengtsson writes: Mats> I think we can agree that both LilyPond and Sibelius are Mats> among the better options when it comes to typesetting Mats> quality, right? Sibelius is certainly not one of the better options for establishing communication with free softwar

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-03 Thread Joseph Wakeling
Valentin Villenave wrote: > What's the phrase already? First they ignore you... You have forgotten the positive ending of that phrase ... :-) "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi ___ li

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
There's been quite some bashing on Sibelius from the LilyPond side as well, so we should probably not complain too much. I think we can agree that both LilyPond and Sibelius are among the better options when it comes to typesetting quality, right? /Mats Valentin Villenave wrote: 2009/4/3

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/4/3 Dave Phillips : > If your objection to LWN is re: someone else's comment on my articles, then > that's fine with me. But if anyone has a problem with my articles per se I'd > prefer they take it up with me, not with my publishers. Not at all. It's just some comments that (by design, I thi

Re: my articles and astroturfng LWN

2009-04-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op vrijdag 03-04-2009 om 07:44 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Dave Phillips: Hi Dave, > If your objection to LWN is re: someone else's comment on my articles Yeah, that's it. Somehow, whenever you write a fine piece on or even mentioning Lily, there are uninformed comments that "need" to be rep