Re: developers developers developers

[Tim Reeves]

Graham wrote:
> 
> For the record, **I have never recommended that somebody use
> lilypond**.  When meeting a technically-oriented composer,
> especially one working on algorithmic music, I might suggest that
> they should check it out.  But I think the original poster was
> entirely justified in switching back to Finale.
> 
> That's why I cringe a bit whenever I hear people proudly
> announcing that they advertized lilypond to meeting X or
> conference Y.
> 


I'm surprised. What about the beautiful output and flexibility? If they 
don't like the learning curve, what's the loss?

For me, I only use it for stuff that doesn't require much, if any, 
tweaking, but from the gist of what I read on the user list, maybe I'm in 
the minority.



Tim Reeves