Re: Any "objective" praises?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Erik Sandberg writes:

> Does anyone know about a good third-party comparison of music notation
> software, where lily is included, and where some general judgement of
> beautifulness is included?

I don't think you'll find such a thing, because people who care about
notation will never use untweaked output from other programs.  LilyPond
just uses another paradigm.  People are used to tweaking scores, and
proud*) to be good at it, see for example

    
http://groups.google.de/group/rec.music.classical.guitar/tree/browse_frm/thread/9c28adfb97a955d1/6c822e0e456d06b5?rnum=1&hl=nl&q=lilypond+editor+ophee+contest&_done=%2Fgroup%2Frec.music.classical.guitar%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F9c28adfb97a955d1%2F6c822e0e456d06b5%3Ftvc%3D1%26q%3Dlilypond+editor+ophee+contest%26hl%3Dnl%26#doc_e40b5585709b24e9

Jan.

*) if you can make beautiful scores with score or finale, you are
   a typesetting expert and you should be proud of that.
   
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