Re: Supporting my work on LilyPond financially

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Joseph,

> The default output of Finale is indeed ugly, and I was reminded that Sibelius 
> too has its problems when I recently received a score from a friend which 
> would surely have looked much better done in Lilypond.
> 
> The thing is, though, both are so easy to tweak, it doesn't matter.

I disagree somewhat… and so do most of my Finale- and Sibelius-using friends 
and colleagues, who complain endlessly about how much time it takes to tweak 
scores and parts.

What *is* true is that beauty in engraving is less of an issue to most people 
than just getting it done.

> what matters to the end user is very often the facility to get the score 
> _just as they want it_, not the ability of the program to automatically 
> second-guess their desires.

Actually, what matters to most end user is to have something “good enough”… 
and, I’m sad to say, Finale and Sibelius do that (for them) with almost no 
tweaking at all.

Cheers,
Kieren.