Re: User Experience Engineering

[David Rogers]

On 5-Jan-2006, at 12:54 PM, Linda Seltzer wrote:

> A smooth user interface employing the standard already-debugged  
> platforms,
> such as Notepad and Word on Windows, with everything bug free, is more
> important than more and more detailed features, which can be added  
> later.

A smooth user interface on an already-debugged platform is something  
that Windows itself cannot honestly claim. I've used Windows lately.  
I stopped.

What you are calling "detailed features" are the main reason for  
choosing Lilypond. To musicians they are not "detailed features" at  
all, but the basics. Lilypond still has some distance to go to be  
adequate for all ordinary music. I have used very few programs that  
are, and none of those were free, open-source, etc.

If you want a free (as in no money) music notation program for  
Windows, with fewer features but an easier interface for beginners, I  
can recommend some. Lilypond is filling its own position very well,  
exactly (in my opinion) because it is not trying to be those programs.

Sincerely
David