Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 14:03 +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
> Am 20.07.2013 17:57, schrieb Richard Shann:
> 
> > I have been compiling some examples of LilyPond's typesetting compared
> > with those of well-known alternatives:
> > 
> > http://denemo.org/CompareScorewriters
> > 
> > If anyone can provide better examples - these are just taken from
> > published work that I could find with a quick search - then please let
> > me know - especially if I am not doing LilyPond justice.
> > My examples have a common origin in MusicXML files, but there may be
> > some other way of standardizing the comparisons (short of re-typing
> > music examples...).
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> What about the LilyPond and Finale renderings on that page:
> http://lilypond.ursliska.de/notensatz/lilypond-tutorials/tackle-complex-tasks/part-2-improving-the-output.html?

Reading this page I see you refer to "the model" but it is not so clear
what this is: a musicXML file could provide a fixed point of reference,
though its rag-bag specification does not help. And worse, the musicXML
format is capable of holding descriptions of where to break lines etc;
we really want to compare the ability to generate this sort of thing.

Could we arrive at a definition of what a minimal specification of a
piece of music notation that described some conventional Western music
but not how it is to be typeset? I'm not sure. Even having added
"conventional Western" to that sentence.

Richard


> Unfortunately TYPO3 scrambled the links to the full-size images, but
> it already gives you an idea.
> I like this example because it displays a task LilyPond does _not_
> manage - but then shows that Finale behaves much worse with it.
> (But to be honest: it's Finale 2008 and should maybe rerendered with a
> current version).
> 
> Urs
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