Re: (hypothetical) Availability of LilyPond engravers

[Urs Liska]

Am 16.04.2015 um 20:39 schrieb bart deruyter:
> Hi,
>
> I think it's a very interesting question, but I think the answer will
> always be very vague.

Necessarily so. To get concrete answers one has to ask concrete 
questions. But sometimes one needs to have a vague idea on a subject to 
be able to continue talking about it in order to possibly get to 
concrete questions ...

> Not only is it hard to estimate how many people use lilypond, but it is,
> even harder to find out what is ment with 'qualified engraver', at least
> here in Belgium, because I don't even know what a 'qualified engraver'
> means, nor how to get 'qualified' (I have no knowledge of any school
> teaching music typesetting).

Admittedly this is a very vague expression. But in a way LilyPond allows 
for a broader range of interpretation here. For our "Das trunkne Lied" 
project we have a really wide range of backgrounds with our 
contributors. And this basically doesn't make any problem. I think 
through the way we have set up the project (especially that one is 
usually only faced with a rather tiny file containing just 10-20 
measures of a single voice) the actual engraving (or rather music entry) 
demands are comparably small.

In any projects not all contributors have to be proficient with all 
aspects, particularly not with beautifying the final output. 
Nevertheless people should be able to provide their input without 
requiring too much hand-holding and without producing an inappropriate 
amount of errors.

But I also have made the experience that an edition project can get kind 
of stuck if there are too few "power-users" active.
But still I think that's a cool feature because it really means you can 
add the "processing power" of an arbitrary number of contributors to a 
project.

Urs

> But I've been typesetting quite a bit of shorter and longer pieces for
> guitar, for teaching purposes, my guitarbook, myself and for others, but
> without payment, at least not directly.
>
> I have time and I'd love to typeset more often, so if you need one more,
> count me in too ;)
>
> grtz,
>
> Bart
>
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> 2015-04-16 20:14 GMT+02:00 Kieren MacMillan
> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>:
>
>     Hi Urs,
>
>     > 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.
>
>     This is something I’m interested in as someone who potentially wants
>     to HIRE a Lilypond assistant, as opposed to offering my own
>     services!  :)
>
>     > Is it realistic to say there are always enough engravers at hand to 
> accept work?
>
>     Can’t wait to hear the final answer.
>
>     > 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.
>
>     +1
>
>      > Any opinions or estimates?
>
>     My gut reaction (projecting from my own life, of course) is that
>     many of us are composer-engravers who barely even have time to get
>     our own scores done, or hobbyists who wouldn’t be appropriate for
>     the job. The “sweet spot” of qualified engravers with time on their
>     hands is probably pretty small.
>
>     Thanks for asking the question!
>     Kieren.
>
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