Re: Any "objective" praises?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Erik Sandberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for good comparisons between different typesetting
> softwares' layout beautifulness.
>
> Lots of people have praised the beautifulness of lily's output on our
> various lists; it seems that everyone agrees that the (untweaked) output
> of lily is far more beautiful than the (untweaked) output of any other
> music typesetting program. However, our lists is a very biased source.
>
> 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?

there aren't, and that's because beauty is subjective. If you want 
objective measure, then compare with hand-engraved scores. That's also 
what we do.

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