Re: LilyPond at University College Cork

[james]

Am 19.11.2008 um 21:28 schrieb Trevor Bača:

> Hi,
>
> Last week I had the opportunity to talk about LilyPond in  
> conjunction with my music as part of a presentation I gave at  
> University College Cork (UCC) in Cork, Ireland.

That's absolutely awesome. I keep in touch with some of the  
composition students in my undergrad, and now that I understand the  
program a bit better, I evangelise constantly to them about how much  
better it is than sibelius.

> * "Why can't I type \new staff { } instead of \new Staff { } or  
> \new voice { } instead of \new Voice { }? Note names don't have to  
> be capitalized so why do I have to capitalize Staff?" (Which made  
> me realize just how carefully I need to watch the details when  
> working with new users and also that I probably needed a better  
> terminal font to help distinguish lower- and uppercase characters  
> on the projector).

To someone who's never typed a line of code in their (barring LOGO,  
when he was much younger) this is an extremely important distinction.  
My first question to the user list was a confusion I had between  
\clef and /clef and c"8 and c''8. It's in the documentation, much  
better and prominent than it was 3 years ago when I started with  
lilypond, but it's so important that people new to code be explained  
the right and wrong ways of writing code.

> * "Do you personally think the lack of GUI is a weakness of the  
> program or a strength?" (Answer: a strength, for me anyway.)

Neither. It is what it is.

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