Re: Making a children's piano music book with LilyPond

[Mats Bengtsson]

Antti Kaihola wrote:
> Hi all LilyPond users and developers,
>
>
> I have a small music publishing company which has recently published its
> first piano music book for children. The book has 65 elementary piano
> pieces composed by a young Finnish composer-pianist. The pieces were
> engraved using Sibelius.
>
> We are now working on another set of pieces with three different
> composers. We aim to publish the new book in December. There will be
> about 40-50 small pieces (1-2 pages each).
>
> I'm doing the new pieces with both Sibelius and LilyPond at the same
> time, because I want to evaluate LilyPond's abilities and maturity for
> print quality publishing.
>
> So far my experience from LilyPond has been mostly positive, and its way
> of thinking suits me very well.
>
> I assume it would help developers and users if I post examples of
> erroneus or incomplete output to the mailing list(s)? It would help to
> see tricks and workaround from other users, and hopefully some of the
> cases would lead to bugfixes or new features.

Great!

> In the best case we would be able to use LilyPond's output for the
> printed book, but in any case I'd be happy to do my part to help
> LilyPond mature towards that goal.
>
> Which list should I post my examples to?

Use bug-lilypond for errors, lilypond-user for questions and general
examples and lilypond-devel for feature requests and issues specific
to the development version.


   /Mats