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Re: My own wishlist...
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Nick Busigin |
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Re: My own wishlist... |
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Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:22:31 -0500 (EST) |
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 address@hidden wrote:
> As an interesting meta-question, I always wondered in how far Lilypond
> users were software people, or at least, technically oriented people.
> Everytime I show my score to a musician, he/she
> finds them beautiful - and, as a matter of principle, I never use anything
> but Lilypond's default - and asks for more information about the software
> I use. Then, after showing Lilypond and its input format,
> depending on whether he/she is computer literate, I am told
> that I spend too much time with computers (which is obviously
> true) or that I come from a different planet altogether (which is
> perhaps true as well :-) )
I don't know how many responses you received, but here's my guess: Most
LilyPond users are probably programmers or have programmer friends or
partners. My wife and I are an example. She is a gifted musician who
has recently learned how to use LilyPond for typesetting her choral
arrangements, piano works and also for producing jazz lead-sheets. The
way we work is as follows: I set up a template file for her to work
with, complete with macros for a number of tweaks and she enters the
music and lyrics. If she runs into a problem, she calls me and I
determine if it's a bug or something that needs a tweak she isn't
familiar with. The process works quite well and we are both very
impressed with the quality of the typeset music.
Nick
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