Re: Real World Usage

[Paul Scott]

craigbakalian wrote:
> Hi All,
>         I am a composer who is using Lilypond exclusively.  I have used it for
> a choir and piano piece, flute and piano sonatas, piano pieces, numerous
> chamber works, and a full three movement trumpet concerto.  It already
> is real world usage.  
>   

It's great that composers like you are comfortable with Lily!  It's also 
true that there are composers who will not use Lily because of her 
complexity and geekiness.  I have met more than one.  It's also true 
that some aspects of LilyPond have gotten much simpler over the several 
years that I have used it.
>         I don't get the topic.  Do you mean compete with Finale?  If you do, I
> think you are foolish.  Leave Lilypond the way it is, with no gui-ed up
> shlock.
>   

We are close to having the best both worlds.  Just as we have Unix/LInux 
which doesn't absolutely need X Windows we have Lily and we have tools 
like JEdit and LilyPondTool and others and conversion tools which allow 
people who are not comfortable with Lily as she is.

I totally agree that Lily should not have any GUI features and I don't 
think that many who maintain and improve her would want that either.

OTOH if tools like JEdit, etc. could develop into a full GUI for those 
who need that a lot more people would be served and it would certainly 
compete with Finale.

Paul Scott