I just ran across your software and decided to try it out. I like what people say and have been curious as to music engraving for Linux. One thing struck me as being unfair, however: your approach and criticism of Finale. I am a theorist and composer and I use Finale exclusively to engrave my work and your criticism of it is unfair when pitted against Lilypond. The problem with criticisms such as this one don't take into consideration that everything with Finale and more is fully customizeable. Furthermore, I have NEVER experieced results like the piece you posted with default settings. Finale is quite capapble of producing professional results even MORE complicated than lilypond. I also saw the example of the "complicated" engraving example lilypond was able to do. I hope that wasn't serious. I suggest one of Ravel's piano pieces such as Jeux D'eau or his Pavane as a more accurate description of "complicated" engraving. Finale is used by some of the world's largest publication houses (even Barenreiter) and I don't think they would all be using it if a better approach to engraving existed. Like I said, I am a fan of open source software and Linux, but I can assure you that no professional engraver will use something that has to be engraved through a command line! I am looking forward to great advancement in this program and will follow it closely.
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