Re: Lilypond website

[chip]

Chip Zoller wrote:
> I just ran across your software and decided to try it
> out.  I like what people say and have been curious as
> to music engraving for Linux.  

I am using Lilypond on FreeBSD, it works great. My son uses Lilypond on 
XP (with cygwin), it works great there also. In the windows version he 
has to reload acrobat reader every time he views his piece, in *nix you 
just have to refresh the piece in the acrobat viewer, not reload the 
viewer, it's much quicker that way, on the *nix version.

> Like I said, I am a
> fan of open source software and Linux, but I can
> assure you that no professional engraver will use
> something that has to be engraved through a command
> line!  

I've seen similar arguments used for html/web page design "no 
professional web page designer would create his pages in a plain text 
editor". Not true at all. If you want to get more work done more 
efficiently, and maybe even quicker, the cli (command line interface) or 
plain text editor, will always beat the point/click of mousing around 
the screen. Of course there is also the fact that the gui programs are 
slower to load and use becuase of the extra weight of the hundreds of 
'features' that they are loaded with, and most average users never make 
use of.

> I am looking forward to great advancement in
> this program and will follow it closely.
>  
> Chip Zoller

I am just learning Lilypond, just installed it not more than a couple 
weeks ago, then my son followed me and installed it on his machine. I 
have been using Finale for the last year or so, my son has been use 
MidiSoft Studio. He's really enjoying learning a new 'programming 
language', which this is akin to.

I don't expect I'll be going back to Finale now that I am beginning to 
get a handle on Lilypond, plus it makes it much easier to make the move, 
compoletely away from the MS Windows mess. A music notation program was 
probably one of the last apps I didn't have in BSD.

This is great stuff, enjoy learning it.
--
Chip Wiegand