Re: free LilyPond advertising

[Andrew Hawryluk]

>   I was just wondering what is it then that you like so much in Finale? You
>  said both are good, but for different things. What is this thing? Is it that
>  it is easier to correct typesetting errors in Finale?

Yes, I left most of that discussion for later, but to be brief,
Finale's advantages for myself include:
- I already know how to do almost everything that I regularly need and
have gotten pretty fast, but on LP I'm still a bubmling beginner who
has to look stuff up all the time.
- For single-note melodic passages, my LilyPond typing skills are only
marginally slower than entering the data into Finale by any method,
but for piano music with large chords (and especially in keys with
many sharps/flats) I am much faster entering a whole chord at time
from MIDI keyboard.
- Instantly playback (proofread) whatever passage you just entered,
not the entire MIDI file
- Some multi-staff editing operations are much easier in Finale, e.g.
in a score with a dozen staves I want to insert four empty measures
after measure 43.
- Compatablilty with the rest of the world. I was once able to reduce
an hour of orchestral music to an eight piece ensemble without
entering any notes because the composer was willing to send me his
Finale files. After that experience I will probably never uninstall
Finale.

Of course, as I begin to understand the best ways to do things in
LilyPond it gets easier and easier, but these are some of the hurdles
that a recovering Finale user goes through.

Cheers,
Andrew