Re: Comparing LilyPond with Sibelius, Finale, Musescore etc

[Urs Liska]

Am 23.07.2013 19:11, schrieb Richard Shann:
> On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 15:12 +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
> > Am 23.07.2013 15:09, schrieb Richard Shann:
> > > On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 14:03 +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
> > > > Am 20.07.2013 17:57, schrieb Richard Shann:
> > > >
> > > > > I have been compiling some examples of LilyPond's typesetting compared
> > > > > with those of well-known alternatives:
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> > > > > http://denemo.org/CompareScorewriters
> > > > >
> > > > > If anyone can provide better examples - these are just taken from
> > > > > published work that I could find with a quick search - then please let
> > > > > me know - especially if I am not doing LilyPond justice.
> > > > > My examples have a common origin in MusicXML files, but there may be
> > > > > some other way of standardizing the comparisons (short of re-typing
> > > > > music examples...).
> > > > >
> > > > > Richard
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> > > > What about the LilyPond and Finale renderings on that page:
> > > > http://lilypond.ursliska.de/notensatz/lilypond-tutorials/tackle-complex-tasks/part-2-improving-the-output.html?
> > > Reading this page I see you refer to "the model" but it is not so clear
> > > what this is
> > In this case the printed score from which I typeset the example with
> > LilyPond and someone else with Finale 2008.
> Ah, I see, you are able to talk about "Enter the plain music, correctly
> assign voices and don't apply any manual corrections" in the context of
> Finale
Actually I can't talk that way about Finale - because I don't know it. 
What I formulated is _my_ LilyPond perspective on it, and I asked Janek 
to typeset the example with Finale with the given premises. I actually 
don't know what he did to come up with that result.
> - with many such programs you cannot certain markings or text
> without manually positioning it, it just floats at the end of the mouse
> pointer until you click.

This leads nicely to another point I wanted to throw in.
This whole discussion reminds me of one topic I have on my wishlist for 
lilypondblog.org: How can you tell in a Finale or Sibelius score what is 
default and what is manually tweaked? This isn't intended to be a 
'display of superiority' but rather a real matter of interest because I 
don't know (anymore) how a WYSIWYG user would think about such issues 
(if he is aware of them at all).

If anybody feels inspired to write something in that direction (e.g. 
showing an example, formulating a set of questions etc.) feel free to 
contact Janek or me.

Urs
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