Re: Lose the tagline (permanently)

[Noeck]

Hi Abraham,

I agree with you. I always change it or remove it for the following reasons:

1) It is in *English* and would be the only English part in my otherwise
German score – that looks just unprofessional. That's the most important
part for me.

2) In general such a phrase looks *unprofessional* to me – more like
some crappy shareware from old times (that Apple does it with "sent from
my iPhone" doesn't make it better).

3) People might be *scared away* because of this. And as people know
this from demo versions, some think you can not or are not allowed to
remove this line they don't like.

What I usually do is to set the tag line to "LilyPond 2.19" or the thing
below [1]. That is a) language independent b) short c) contains all
relevant information.

Cheers,
Joram




[1]:
tagline = \markup
  \with-url #"http://lilypond.org"; \line {
    "Lilypond"
    #(string-join
      (map (lambda (x) (if (symbol? x)
                           (symbol->string x)
                           (number->string x)))
        (list-head (ly:version) 2))
      ".")
    "– www.lilypond.org"
  }

% for online distribution the www part can be dropped, it is intended
% for printed scores which don't profit from the link.