Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 114, Issue 130

[James Harkins]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:46 AM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> James Harkins <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I'm attaching a couple of samples of today's typesetting work. The
>> first is pretty well marked up. The second is mostly just the notes
>> for now (needs articulation, dynamics and some adjustments of tie
>> curves -- later). As in earlier work on this piece, it's kind of
>> shocking how little tweaking I have to do, even for moderately complex
>> notation.
>
> "Moderately" complex.  Now there are people whom I am not an enabler
> for.  Hardcore programmers.

Oh, pshaw. I'm no hardcore programmer. Softcore at best :-p

I meant "moderately complex" in that this is several steps beyond a
lead sheet or four-part chorale, but rather simpler than, say, Mike
Solomon's work in lilypond...

Not looking for an enabler. The things I'm reacting to, which make me
want to contribute, are:

- The wow factor. There isn't much software that truly knocks my socks
off *every time* I use it. Supercollider totally changed the way I
approach composing. Lilypond has done something I thought was
impossible when I was using -- hm, that's not right, let's try
"fighting with" -- Finale: It's actually made it enjoyable to typeset
music on the computer. !

- One of the senior developers works on Lilypond basically full-time,
without institutional support. Nobody is doing that in
supercollider-land. (Two developers are working full-time on a new
editor environment for SC, with grant funding, not the same thing.)

I give back to the SC community mainly by answering a lot of questions
on the mailing list. I'm not so expert a lilypond user (though I think
I've gotten past the worst of the learning curve) but want to give
something back here too.

hjh


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