Re: problematic commit

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:13:14PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Graham Percival
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Zing!  That was a cheap shot.
> 
> What can I say? You taught me well, Master :-)

Yeah, but I keep it classy, Valentine!  I mean, making fun of
somebody's girly name is high culture, whereas pointing out a lack
of "bling" in an open-source project is just plain rude.

> As for changing direction of ties, I really really doubt that it's
> more easily achieved in Finale than in Lily. At least, it wasn't back
> when I did use these apps.

Dude, there's a ton of things that Finale does easier.  You want
some symbol somewhere?  Just drag it there with the mouse, look at
it, drag it somewhere else.

Now, you know, and I know, that this doesn't scale nicely to
dealing with a hundred-page score, particularly if you want to
change margins or page sizes or whatnot -- you'd need to manually
redo all your absolutely positioned marks.  But I'd bet that most
Finale users don't do anything more complicated than a 3-page
arrangement of "Jingle Bells" for SATB+piano, so the "scaling"
argument is hard to make.

LilyPond is not the best tool for every person in the world, and
there's nothing wrong with admitting that.

Cheers,
- Graham