Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

[Richard Shann]

Thank you - 

The comparison with LilyPond is now up on the Denemo website:

http://denemo.org/compareSibelius

altogether, these examples (not selected to favor LilyPond, chosen by
MuseScore and at random from IMSLP) show the benefit of not trying to
typeset note-by-note as the music is entered.
This method of comparison is not robust against manipulation, however:
Sibelius and Finale could take extra care typesetting when importing
music, but my guess is that they haven't bothered.
If anyone would like to hand enter some of that music to see if the
MusicXML import is doing anything fancy that would be good (but a lot of
work, of course, else you wouldn't be reading here :) )

Richard


On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 22:10 +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
> To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 5:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc
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> 
> > Great! They are both creative commons xxx,
> >
> > <credit-words default-x="674.687" default-y="125" font-size="8"
> > justify="center" valign="bottom">Copyright © 2012 Marc Sabatella
> > Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
> > License</credit-words>
> >
> > the Adon from IMSLP, so ok, but you can send them direct if you like.
> 
> Here you go.  These are imported from MusicXML with no tweaking, and 
> exported to PDF, with the full version of Sibelius 7.  To be honest, 
> Sibelius isn't normally _this_ bad.
> 
> --
> Phil Holmes