Re: How to auto print empty measures?

[David Kastrup]

Karlin High <address@hidden> writes:

> On 12/29/2018 9:59 AM, Reggie wrote:
>> loll it's literally in the OP title of thread auto print empty just like
>> finale and sebelius do when you begin engraving a piece of music. :)) you'll
>> see what i am meaning when all is done
>
> I understood the OP the same way Aaron Hill did. If the OP's request
> still hasn't been satisfied, I am hoping for further clarification.
>
> And in any online community dedicated to a specific music software,
> repeatedly promoting competing products is unlikely to win many
> friends. Differences among these products exist for good reasons, and
> some users will find that one meets their needs better than others.

I've seen a forum split into subforums on the brand/kind of equipment
people use, and the various subforums have their various discussions and
contests and "usual suspects" and people tend to stick with their crowd
even when they change brand for some reason.

A complete mess for actually searching/finding information, but at least
there the "unlikely to win many friends" prognosis does not seem to
hold.

Now here the LilyPond discussion lists are hosted by GNU which has a
policy to avoid promoting proprietary software.  And that's sort-of a
line where people actually tend to get at least irritable.  But it turns
out that other Free Software (whether it uses LilyPond as a backend or
not) is often in discussion here, particularly when its MusicXML
workflow can be diverted for LilyPond-related purposes.

Anyway, repeated chants of "but $x does it better" without providing any
useful details is likely to annoy people (Free Software or not) since
many here are eager to help and LilyPond can be made to do a whole lot
once you know what you want to get done.

-- 
David Kastrup