Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages

[Urs Liska]

Seems I have to chime in instead of preparing a merely statistical poll ...

42, pianist, musicologist (with half a decade's worth intermezzo of
electronic music. Unfortunately that was just before my
Lilypond/programming time, I already had some ideas to try generating
LilyPond input from PureData improvisations ....).

I'm using LilyPond to typeset
- transpositions from songs I have to play and that are too complex to
transpose from sight
- examples and snippets for texts
- scholarly editions, which is what I'm also working for on a more
general level.

Unfortunately I don't recall when I first worked with LilyPond and why I
started looking at it. One reason was definitely that I was frustrated
with Finale (2001)'s habit of breaking things after the fact. Probably
the idea of programmatic access also appealed to me already then.

Urs


Am 11.09.2015 um 17:27 schrieb Shane Brandes:
> 41, organist,  composer frequently for the church, sometimes
> commissioned works for special occasions and sometimes for self
> amusement. I use LilyPond to set the above, and sometimes to typeset
> stuff that has survived the ravages of time poorly causing the desire
> to have a cleaner score to work from. Use Frescobaldi as a front end
> as the error parser is invaluable. And yes I occasionally compose
> directly into LilyPond format when pen and paper is a waste of time.
>
>
> Shane
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Wols Lists <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 10/09/15 19:59, Tim Reeves wrote:
>>> Age: 49
>>> Amateur hornist.
>>> Typesetting of existing parts, occasionally creating simple exercises,
>>> fingering charts, etc. Not a regular user, but like to keep up on
>>> development.
>>> I use Frescobaldi every time for some time now, and I've been using LP
>>> for roughly eight years.
>>>
>> Age: fifty-something.
>> Amateur trombonist
>> Typesetting and transposing of parts (I mostly play bass clef but can
>> read treble, but some fellow players only play one or the other, so the
>> band needs parts in both, and then of course some parts come in tenor
>> clef :-)
>> I use a basic editor (kate, pfe, notepad).
>> I've been using lily since 2.4 and have made the odd contribution.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wol
>>
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