Re: Lilypond lobbying?

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/8/18 address@hidden <address@hidden>:
> Hey all,
> I recently came across an announcement for an incredible composition
> competition for SIX ORGANS (!!!!1one).
> http://mmp.cm-cascais.pt/NR/rdonlyres/5BBEE22D-3C21-4996-AEFE-A2C0B2FAF9C9/12487/regulMCIngles2.pdf
> The rules state that one can only use Sibelius or Finale.  Thinking that
> this was perhaps an oversight, I contacted the administrator to see if I
> could use Lilypond, who replied:
> ***
> Dear Sir
>
> We can't accept another program. Only those referred in the contest rules.
> ***

This is OUTRAGEUS!

> In either case, it makes me sad that I won't be able to write a work for SIX
> ORGANS.  My question is: what can we do, as a community, to overcome this
> type of hurdle?  Obviously, the more competitions/clients/whathaveyou that
> require one to use a specific piece of software for music making makes
> LilyPond less and less advantageous to use.  So, is it appropriate for a
> representative from the development team to contact competitions like this
> on the behalf of the user community to signal non-understanding and/or
> outrage?

Definately!  It would be good to have an official LilyPond
representative (this means either Jan, Han-Wen or Graham i guess)
contact them, and regular users can send e-mails too.  We should
decide on this when we receive their reasoning behind that decision.


2011/8/18 Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden>:
> Hello all,
>
> Here's an idea: Since they're not asking for submission
> of the original Sibelius/Finale file (only the PDF "paper" score),
> can we make Lilypond look like Finale? Maybe by writing
> a Scheme engraver to randomly make horrible anti-Lilypond
> engraving choices, with a parameter setting for
> "Finale input user experience level"?  ;)

While this sounds very entertaining, any serious engraver will be able
to tell notation programs apart because of the font.  Flag shape is
enough for me to recognize wheter music is set in Feta or default
Finale/Sibelius font - and the treble clef is a much bigger giveaway!


2011/8/18 Dmytro O. Redchuk <address@hidden>:
> On Thu 18 Aug 2011, 08:32 Francois Planiol wrote:
>> - They are totally stupid and
>
> On Thu 18 Aug 2011, 09:49 Francois Planiol wrote:
>> So stupid guys
>
> :-)

+1!!

cheers,
Janek