Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 15:12 +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
> Am 23.07.2013 15:09, schrieb 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
> In this case the printed score from which I typeset the example with 
> LilyPond and someone else with Finale 2008.

Ah, I see, you are able to talk about "Enter the plain music, correctly
assign voices and don't apply any manual corrections" in the context of
Finale - with many such programs you cannot certain markings or text
without manually positioning it, it just floats at the end of the mouse
pointer until you click.

Richard