Re: musescore lands sponsoring?

[David Kastrup]

Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:

> 2012/5/29 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden>:
>>
>> Just to make sure you have seen
>>
>>  
>>  
>> http://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/b-sendorfer-sponsors-open-goldberg-project-providing-concert-grand-ceus-recording-technology-0
>>
>> Wouldn't LilyPond have been a technically superior choice for this
>> sponsoring project?  What are we missing?
>>
>
> What do you mean with "technically superior"? It's about the output?

How about the input?  You can put a lot of information in the input
about the autograph, in comments, in alternate code paths.

> Last year I was thinking about trying to introduce LilyPond in some
> music schools in my area.
> But then I realized that anyone who is not a kind of geek will be
> scared away by the text input (no matter how powerful it is).

I am not sure about that.  It is fast, readable, efficient.  In
contrast, MusiXTeX is an incomprehensible nightmare of technoblurb.

-- 
David Kastrup