Re: Comparison of Musescore, Sibelius and Dorico -- would like to add Lilypond

[David Bellows]

> Ok, everyone. I have finally gotten around to adding data about LilyPond

Excellent work and thank you!

Lilypond does look good here. I am curious, what are forked stems? You
have that as a "no" for Lilypond.

Also, I see you used the latest unstable version of Lilypond, did that
make much of a difference?

Dave
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 2:37 PM Abraham Lee <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 1:04 PM David Bellows <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Urs,
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>> >I think it would be good to add our stuff to the chart (not necessarily 
>> >much to the comments section).
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>> If the owner of the spreadsheet allows it, then definitely. I don't
>> know them personally so I don't know how they feel about that. I
>> suppose we could create our own version if they do not agree. I'm one
>> of the mods in that sub so I'll be making the chart a permanent link
>> in the sub so either way would work (and obviously we can link to it
>> from anywhere else we'd like).
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>> > not only check the given items with yes/no but also freely add to the list
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>> I agree. The OP did ask for omissions/corrections so I would think
>> these (and others) would apply.
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>> > find a way to plug the "programmability" aspect (vs. applying plugins 
>> > after-the-fact),    with things like complete extensibility with 
>> > syntactical means, conditional layout per engraving target ...    (Maybe 
>> > this would even warrant a new tab in the sheet)
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>> One of Lilypond's biggest strengths! Working out meaningful/useful
>> parallels with the other programs would be the issue, I'm guessing?
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> Ok, everyone. I have finally gotten around to adding data about LilyPond. I 
> felt pretty confident in the Notation and Engraving tabs, pretty solid marks 
> there, but more uncertain about the Playback tab entries. I'm honestly not 
> sure what they should be since many of the playback functionality is 
> requisite on forming the content for playback rather than score output (i.e., 
> using articulate.ly, restructuring repeats, etc.). Please feel free to look 
> over my responses and let me know if you feel I've answered in error.
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> Best,
> Abraham