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Re: Lilypond vs Score


From: James Lowe
Subject: Re: Lilypond vs Score
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:05:35 +0000
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Ahh this is like the old arguments I used to hear when I worked for a small Typesetting/reprographics house at the end of the 1980's to the end of the 1990's.

We would get a 'new' designer turn up and he would then proceed to tell us that all the 'real' typesetters/repro houses were using XYZ.app and that new fangled stuff we used (Aldus Pagemaker - remember that?) was never going to be as good. Then Quark Xpress came along and then Indesign and then and then...each new hire we got would tell us that 'the industry' used something that we weren't and how much better it was etc etc. I won't even begin to tell you about the CMYK pre-process technology arguments (I do remember though being told that this silly PDF technology was useless).

Fortunately we had a tight fisted boss, as heaven knows how much wasted money we would have spent on all this different software. We actually used whatever tool was easiest and quickest for the specific job in hand. We had some really skilled designers who could produce lovely work with any of the tools or even a combination of them.

As a case in point, I remember one of our designers cutting and pasting (albeit using Aldus Freehand - remember that?) two or three pages of music for a local carol concert to hand out to the public, it was two staves and she literally would take whatever font it was that showed all the music glyphs, outline them in Freehand and then manually drag/drop them in place over a tiff file that has been a photocopy of an original. Then once it was all in place removed the tiff file and tweaked it by eye.

Took her a day but it looked lovely. I didn't know anything about music at all back then (not even sure she did either), and thought that was how all music was typeset.

James



Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
No, that's not true.

Score is like a notation drawing program, so you have very precise control over the musical elements' positions.
If you create a simple score, LilyPond's output is clearly superior.
If you are creating a complicated one, than Score becomes a hand-engraving tool. In that case YOU must produce the superior engraving. Which is surely possible with LilyPond - with less effort I think.

Bert

Bobber wrote:
I have been having a discussion with a small publisher who uses the music manuscript program called Score. He says that neither Lilypond or Finale can produce engraving that is comparable to Score. And that most of the major music publishers in the world use Score.

Is anyone familiar with Score and what makes it superior?





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