Re: \unfoldRepeats

[David Rogers]

Andrew Bernard <andrew.bernard@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi David,
>
> That's one view, but I have been using LilyPond for professional
> engraving for years and I am now moving into MIDI for generation 
> of
> MIDI as the principal end output, for film scores and so on. 
> That's a
> valid musical compositional use case. The engraved score is 
> _not_
> always the principal object. …

I agree that an engraved score is not always each 
person’s principal aim. But it doesn’t follow that every piece of 
software ought to be the right one for every possible aim; 
Firefox’s double-entry bookkeeping is atrocious, and writing 
novels in Photoshop is way harder than it needs to be. :)  Nor 
does it follow that all music composition software developers need 
a worldwide agreement on which use-cases must be covered.

I don’t think there’s an unlimited number of people with both the 
skill and the desire to work on the main structure of Lilypond, 
and to me it makes more sense for them to intentionally neglect a 
secondary function than to hold back or limit a primary one.

--
David Rogers