Re: "Digital Edition" conference

[Colin Campbell]

On 05/10/2014 03:05 AM, Urs Liska wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> any LilyPonders or music LaTeXers in Berne or in a reasonable distance 
> of it?
>
> I'm going to lobby LilyPond and LaTeX at a conference on "Digital 
> Edition" and could use some argumentative assistance in the audience ;-)


As it happens, I've been invited to present a session on LilyPond at a 
symposium of church musicians in July, here in Edmonton. I've been given 
a free hand, and thought of presenting the contrast between open and 
closed source, where closed environments mean accepting the vendor's 
view of what is possible and how to do it, while open source ones are 
much more responsive to users. The work done on microtonal notation, 
Kievan chant, hymnody, and even David K's work on simplifying access to 
the internals, are all signs of a healthy and engaged community, as 
opposed to a merchant and customers. Another idea I need to explore is 
the approach Janek used to combine git and LilyPond in a collaborative 
coding exercise, something I'm not sure is possible with Finale or Sibelius.

I'm also in the tentative early stages of setting up an engraving 
business, possibly supplemented with sales of sheet music. I'm expecting 
that I'll need to counter the "Everyone uses Finale" argument, so I'll 
be following this thread with great interest.

Cheers,
Colin

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