Re: Cannot find differences between traditional and computer versions

[Patrick McCarty]

Hi Jakob,

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Jakob Ullmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> now I'm considerably thinking about changing to LilyPond. Congratulations: 
> Your
> article about 'Why computer music notation is bad' is a really good one! Firt 
> I
> thought, computer music notation is very expensive and difficult! Now, I now
> that I'm wrong. At first I used the demoversion of capella. capella was 
> perfect,
> I thought, but too expensive. Then I was switching over to Finale Notepad, I
> really like this one, except the low music notation' look quality.
>
> I wondered: Why do you only use the finale examples for comparison? I tried to
> make this comparison with capella, but: I couldn't find any differences! I 
> used
> "Rosen aus dem Süden" by "Johann Strauß".
>
> Could you show me the differences? I can also give you a printed version, but 
> I
> don't know how.

You could take a screenshot of a particular excerpt produced with both
Capella and LilyPond, and then send them to the list attached to your
email.  Just make sure the images are small enough, or else the list
might reject them.

HTH,
Patrick