Re: mutopia's shortcomings

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Gilles,

> But why _LilyPond_, if you agreed that quality will can (never!) match that
> produced with the tool that produced the scores available on IMSLP ?
> 
> Why not that other tool?

What "other tool"? Hand-engraving with metal punch ca. 1852-1952? Because 
that’s the standard we’re measuring against by comparing to IMSLP.

No cross-platform computer application I know of — proprietary or open source — 
has better output than Lilypond. In fact, even with just a basic stylesheet 
applied to it, my musical theatre Piano/Conductor scores rival (and in most 
cases surpass) what the big publishing houses (e.g., Warner-Chappell) put out 
for sale.

This is one of the reasons I laud Urs’s attempt to get some of those houses to 
use Lilypond: it would actually improve their current output!

Cheers,
Kieren.
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