Re: mutopia's shortcomings

[Gilles]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:42:32 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> 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.

I did not understand that.  I thought that we were discussing computer
generated output with (possibly heavy) human tweaking.

New editions will (probably?) not use hand-engraving as you describe,
so that's not part of the competition.

> 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!

My point in the long thread is that they may indeed be satisfied
with their current business model (which, for some, include ugly
practice) and tools; hence, perhaps nothing can help.


Regard,
Gilles

> Cheers,
> Kieren.