Re: Lilypond lobbying?

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/8/25 Robert Schmaus <address@hidden>:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:42 +0200, "Janek Warchoł"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'd be interested in preparing those and persuading publishers to
>> accept LilyPond, but i'm afraid it will be premature thing to do
>> before GLISS and some more changes concerning slurs, dynamics, ties
>> and beams. :(
>> (in other words: i think that Lily output, while quite nice
>> out-of-the-box, still has noticeable shortcomings: bringing it to
>> publication quality usually requires *lots* of small tweaks, not quite
>> feasible to do.  I can discuss this on examples if you'd like.)
>
> Exactly! But maybe it's still possible to get them interested at least.
> I guess they would need a perspective of a relatively stable version
> ahead which requires only simple tweaking for the final polish.
> I'm sure the mills of Schott grind slowly, too, and if there's a
> long-term chance that they expand their software portfolio to LilyPond
> ... one needs to make them see the upsides for them, for composers, for
> the creative process ...

Maybe...  On the other hand, they may think "noone gives any guarantee
that this software will be actively developed and that our problems
will be addressed".  It's better not to promise improvements, but to
present them with the improved product.

cheers,
Janek