Re: Appreciation / Financial support

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Nils (et al.),

> Authors may write in Microsoft Word and Comic Sans, they can give it to their 
> publisher who then can use whatever they need, with a pro-grade typographer 
> person, to create the real deal. The content stays, the format gets better. 
> Similar situation with music notation. Instead of MS Word and Comic Sans you 
> can use MuseScore here and then later give it to a "pro" who creates it from 
> scratch, only keeping the content. And this is the critical point.
> Lilypond must be the number one tool of choice in this _step_. Everything 
> else before and after here are just personal-union (composer and publisher is 
> the same person) or a bonus.

And now that Microsoft Word is XML-based, inter-personal communication of 
content in the world of publishing has become significantly easier and better.
Would that we could say the same thing with music notation (especially our dear 
Lily)…

Cheers,
Kieren.