Re: lilypond ./ChangeLog Documentation/bibliography...

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Erik Sandberg wrote:
> On Thursday 21 July 2005 20.24, Stephen wrote:
>
> > One more point, while the general recommendations still cite (I finally
> > figured out how to spell it) an assumption that the general user might
> > still only have a screen resolution of 800x600, it is a good assumption
> > that a user of a graphic oriented program like Lilypond is likely to have a
> > minimum screen resolution of 1024x768 nowadays. So a minimum width of 972
> > would be acceptable.
>
>
> I disagree. The fact that lily creates beautiful output, doesn't mean that its 
> users have good graphics hardware. I'd say the opposite: You hardly need to 
> watch the output for other than proofreading purposes. I'm sometimes using 
> lily on 800x600 screens, so I'd be more happy if that would be considered OK.

At this point, I would like to remind of the person who inspired me to 
write \override. At the time it saved a huge amount of memory since the 
cost was of a tweak was no longer proportional to the number of grobs. 
I think his name was Peter Schaffter, and he said "I am a musician, so I 
am poor as churchmouse". Let us hope that also today lily is used by 
musicians, who might not have the latest & greatest hardware.

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