Re: Music teachers happy to hear about LilyPond

[Olivier Biot]

Over here (Belgium) LilyPond is not as well known as MuseScore. Other popular (paid) software are Sibelius and Finale.

I have to agree that even with my software development background and TeX/LaTeX experience I find the learning curve of LilyPond rather steep. But the path is very rewarding. I can't find a faster AND better way to recreate a lost 60-page document than doing it with LilyPond. The knowledge shared by the community is an invaluable complement to the extensive yet sometimes awkward documentation available on the website.

Without the very active participation of the "Herders of the LilyPond Memory" in the LilyPond mailing lists I think many would not have found their way.

Many thanks,

Olivier

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Noeck <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi again,

some more thoughts that came up during the preparation of this teachers’
meeting:

- The LilyPond website could be a bit more enthusiastic about the
features of LilyPond. Many proprietary programs have a shiny *list of*
*features* with images on their site and LilyPond could attract more
users by the fact that almost everything is possible. I hear quite often
from new LilyPond users: "Is this possible with LilyPond?" (And most
often it concerns the most basic features you can think of.)
The examples page is quite nice but could be enhanced nonetheless. Like
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes-big-page
but not only the changes and less technical.
For me it is the first thing I want to know from a previously unknown
software: What can I do with it? What are the features?

- *Mutopia* is often referenced as a showcase. The idea and the starting
point is good but LilyPond can do much better by now and many examples
on mutopia lack the quality that could be achieved with LilyPond.

- Presentation *slides* that introduce LilyPond could be shared.

Still happy that this software is appreciated,

Joram

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