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what business advantages LilyPond can offer (was: how to make decisions?
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Janek Warchoł |
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what business advantages LilyPond can offer (was: how to make decisions?) |
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Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:55:07 +0200 |
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:30 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:
>> Man, am I naive. I do see now what you find depressing about this.
>> How can we ever hope to get people to suggest LilyPond; by merit
>> only?!
>
> They won't give up their working cars and their mechanics. We need to
> offer something new. And new business models (like transpose-on-demand
> with electronic or overnight delivery when the soloist would be
> inconvenienced by wrong pitches). Ultimately things like a whole
> orchestra playing from electronic paper, getting acoustically
> synchronized page turns, live synchronized performance indications (the
> conductor makes a different decision in his partitura and the sheets
> from the musicians follow suit) and corrections. Including "let's take
> that aria one note down".
>
> Entertainers play the first notes of some piece by heart, and the score
> knows what registrations and accompaniment to use on their equipment,
> and in which transposition the supporting score should appear.
>
> There is a world of things that can be done with good-quality electronic
> typesetting that is beyond just replacing established high-quality
> typesetting on paper. If we want to tap into big business, it will be
> much easier not competing in the areas the existing players are best at.
> But rather in the areas that they suck at.
Now, that's a piece of vision! I feel enthusiastic again :D
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