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Re: Lose the tagline (permanently)
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Lose the tagline (permanently) |
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Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:25:44 +0100 |
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Noeck <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
So let's try cutting it down to something language independent and
short. Like
𝄵 www.lilypond.org
> 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).
Shrug. Professional and unheard of does not help us.
> 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.
Well:
> [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.
The fate of PDF is to be printed. Particularly those who have never
heard of LilyPond are rather likely to receive a piece of paper rather
than a PDF file.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), (continued)
- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), Pierre-Luc Gauthier, 2016/02/23
- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), tisimst, 2016/02/23
- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), Federico Bruni, 2016/02/23
- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), David Kastrup, 2016/02/23
- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), Federico Bruni, 2016/02/24
- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), Noeck, 2016/02/23
- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), David Kastrup, 2016/02/23
- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), Paul Morris, 2016/02/23
Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), Noeck, 2016/02/23
- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), Simon Albrecht, 2016/02/23
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- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), Valentin Villenave, 2016/02/23
- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), David Kastrup, 2016/02/23
- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), Dan Eble, 2016/02/23
- Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), David Kastrup, 2016/02/23
Re: Lose the tagline (permanently), Simon Albrecht, 2016/02/23
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