Re: Lilypond vs Score

[Bernhard Ott]

On 02/02/2010 01:24 AM, Bobber wrote:
> That ability would seem to indicate more possibilities. The person I
> spoke to who is one of the publishers listed on the Wikipedia page, said
> that the output of both Finale and Lilypond was unacceptable for a
> professional publisher.
IMHO it's not only the software that matters:
I saw some really good scores done with Finale, and some dreadful 
examples of composers just printing their midi-stuff (Finale, Sibelius, 
...).
Have a look at (for example) Baerenreiter piano-reductions (Bach 
Johannespassion, Mozart operas) - they are a nightmare to read, so even 
with Score you can produce some questionable output.

Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure that Score used to be state of the 
art for a decade, but IMO it's not only a question of features but a 
question of knowing how you want your score to look.

> somehow be manipulated by Score. I don't quite understand how that could
> be done but this is what he said.

There seem to be a lot of third-party programms out there - see 
http://www.scoremus.com/links.html


Regards,
Bernhard