Re: Supporting my work on LilyPond financially

[Urs Liska]

Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> schrieb:
>Hi David,
>
>>> 1. A real, live, useable, full-functioned GUI
>> According to the advertising, that's Denemo.
>
>Perhaps when I’ve got a little time to spare, I’ll give that a look —
>if it’s really all that, it might become part of my standard
>“proselytizing” package.
>
>> "LilyPond for output only" is not much of a goal: it buys us bug
>reports
>> without buying us a community interested in working with and on
>LilyPond.
>
>Ah, but you’re ignoring the “virus” factor: if enough people depend on
>Lilypond for output, an interested community arises to support it.
>Right now, “nobody” depends on Lilypond for output, so there is — as
>you say — no community interested in working with and on it.
>
>> MusicXML export/import or even input/output is definitely something
>> needed for a variety of reasons.
>
>We should start with “perfect" export/import — even that (IMO) would
>turn the tide significantly, perhaps even decisively, in Lily's favour.
>

In case anyone hasn't noticed: we (that is mainly Peter Bjuhr) have finally 
started on giving MusicXML export a try. For now as Frescobaldi functionality.

If anybody is interested in this and has experience with Python and/or MusicXML 
please contact us :-)

Urs

>Cheers,
>Kieren.
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