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From: | Aaron |
Subject: | Re: Lilypond website |
Date: | Sun, 04 Jan 2004 16:47:21 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 |
One thing struck me as being unfair, however: your approach and criticism of Finale. I am a theorist and composer and I use Finale exclusively to engrave my work and your criticism of it is unfair when pitted against Lilypond. The problem with criticisms such as this one don't take into consideration that everything with Finale andmore is fully customizeable.
Hi Chip, The news is that Sibelius just outshines Finale in most areas. I used Finale for years and Lyrics have always stunk, sorry my french.A good portion of poor design issues that were with finale from day one still make using it such a pain.
Well I have and even though finale isn't all that bad, you are stuck with their way of doing things or you are out of luck.Furthermore, I have NEVER experieced results like the piece you postedwith default settings.
One thing I found with binary formats is the inabilty to search for strings. What I mean is that with lilypond, abc and the ascii based notation systems I can search within a directory for a motif a8 a b b c c a. To do this with a binary format is almost impossible with out expensive customized software.
Infact if Sibelius could also do lilypond, abc et all I would choose it over all the alternatives.
My 2 cents. Aaron
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