Re: Supporting my work on LilyPond financially

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Kieren MacMillan writes:

>> The situation is not really all that unfavorable for LilyPond.
>
> Having been “in the trenches” perhaps more than most others on this
> list, I can tell you the situation *is* really all that unfavorable
> for Lilypond.
>
> In my opinion, there are only two things that will ever change this:
> 1. A real, live, useable, full-functioned GUI

This is *exactly* why I've been playing/experimenting with GUI
backends/frontends since 2004.  If you haven't done so, please have
a look at Schikkers List

    http://lilypond.org/schikkers

and come help me out!  If only to lure people over to LilyPond,
increase its potential user base.

> (so that users *never* have to see Lilypond “code”); or

and this is what I don't understand.

My idea is exactly the opposite: to show people the corresponding text
input also, so that they have a very easy way to learn it and may at
their convenience choose to change their primary focus of input to text
input or GUI, depending on the situation at hand.  I hear this as the
biggest complaint against GUI based text processors, many people still
long for the days of Word Perfect with it's "underwater screen".
However, show them LaTeX (or even Lyx) and they run.  As I said, I
have ideas but do not quite understand how people choose to use
computers.

Jan.

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