Re: Lilypond website

[Pedro Kroger]

* Nicolas Sceaux (address@hidden) wrote:
> The real issue is: what time does it take to write the score with
> LilyPond and Finale? IMHO tap tap tap is a lot faster than clic clic
> clic. Maybe the learning curve of LilyPond is longer (I don't know),
> but having regular text source code and command line are *features*,
> not drawbacks, because they make typesetting a lot faster, and reusing
> a lot easier. 

I couldn't agree more. From my experience (10 years of finale and 1.5
of lilypond), the time to write a "complex" score is more or less the
same in both. But scores written in lilypond are far more maintainable
than in any binary format, specially if one uses CVS.

Cheers,

Pedro