Re: mutopia's shortcomings

[Janek Warchoł]

2015-04-27 19:02 GMT+02:00 Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden>:
>
>>> it does not make sense to improve the maintainability of a large
>>> set of scores by relying on a functionality that has to be adapted
>>> manually in future and thus produces more manual interventions.
>
> It also doesn’t make sense to feed a self-fueling spiral of wider 
> non-acceptance
> by actively avoiding the use of a tool as game-changing as the 
> edition-engraver.
> Instead, why not download it (from OLL), try it out, and — if it proves as 
> beneficial
> to you as it is to some of us — help try to get it polished and accepted into 
> the standard Lilypond distro?

While it may or may not be a good idea to use EditionEngraver for big
scores / big collections of scores, it definitely will be great if
many people will try using it and report any issues.

best,
Janek