Re: ISMLP/WIMA (?)

[PMA]

Francisco Vila wrote:
> 2012/1/17 PMA<address@hidden>:
> > Thanks for your response.  But I see that we are way apart on this.
> > Adapting/customizing the result is exactly what I mean to prevent.
> > I want these products closed indeed.  Naturally, unrealized scoring
> > improvements will remain on my head.
>
> But nobody but you can do those improvements. People will want to
> print it in landscape, bigger font size, less pages, piano
> reductions... and they couldn't because it is no more than a piece of
> paper you can photocopy at most.
>
> And your work will be more widespread if it is open, too, because it
> has an added value.

Specifically, most of these scores _are_ for solo piano.  But all of them
embody formatting choices that folks tend to consider alterable -- that
I instead emphatically want *not* tampered with.

So at least for starters, I'll go with the "no more than a piece of paper"
scenario.  If this stance later comes back to haunt me, I'll (remember
your warning and) reconsider adding the .ly files.