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Re: Limits of algorithmic typesetting (was: Re: mutopia's shortcomings)


From: Eyolf Østrem
Subject: Re: Limits of algorithmic typesetting (was: Re: mutopia's shortcomings)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 23:22:54 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23.1-rc1 (2014-03-12)

On 24.04.2015 (14:12), tyronicus wrote:
> Simon Albrecht-2 wrote
> > I should’ve written “I believe that nothing as beautiful/good as this 
> > will ever be engraved by a machine” then, since basically it is my 
> > belief. Maybe I exaggerated a little :-)
> > And you may believe differently of course.
> 
> My contrary belief: A machine will draw a circle better than a human 100% of
> the time. It's a matter of telling it how.

A machine may draw a more geometrically perfect circle, but if I were to
hang the drawing on my wall, I'd much rather have one made by Mirò than by a
machine. Same with notation.


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