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| From: | Calixte Faure |
| Subject: | Re: (hypothetical) Availability of LilyPond engravers |
| Date: | Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:45:42 +0200 |
For the time being I could participate in such an endeavor.
Shane
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> <disclaimer>this is more or less hypothetical and nothing to be excited
> about</disclaimer>.
> I realize that I don't have a real idea about the size of our community, and
> particularly regarding the availability of music typesetters who could offer
> reliably continuous engraving services.
>
> If I should be asked to engrave a big score (as fast as possible) in a
> commercial context and wouldn't want to reply "well, I will ask around and
> see how many people I can get together", what could I say? Would it be
> realistic to say that we could (at any time) provide a team of 10 quailfied
> engravers working full time on a project? Or 15-20 working half time?
> And what if it were a request for continuous work? Is it realistic to say
> there are always enough engravers at hand to accept work?
>
> I feel that one aspect that makes publishers hesitate to consider LilyPond
> is exactly this question: They know that there will always be a sufficient
> number of available and qualified Finale and Sibelius users, and presumably
> even Score users, but they don't have an idea about this with LilyPond.
>
> Any opinions or estimates?
>
> Urs
>
>
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