Tom Sgouros <tomf...@as220.org> writes:
Hello all:
I've recently started using Lilypond and so far it's great. I
don't
think I'm saying anything surprising by observing what seems to
be a
close family resemblance to TeX. Did it start out as TeX macros
and
diverge?
I wonder if there is a document out there that might talk about
the
design choices made in putting Lilypond together that might
compare
and contrast it with TeX? Lessons learned?
Thank you,
-Tom
My opinion is a silly one without any facts or evidence: For
projects, there might exist a level of
difficulty-plus-complexity-plus-diversity-plus-peculiarity beyond
which, *in practice*, every successful solution for that project
must necessarily be peculiar, difficult, diverse, and complex, and
the people who complete it will invariably turn out to be diverse,
complex, difficult, and peculiar.
And: For such a project or its solution or its people, every
attempt to reduce the overall magnitude of one of those twelve
characteristics (e.g. complexity of the project, difficulty of the
solution, etc) will also cause unpredictable increases among the
other eleven characteristics, unless each of them is correctly
anticipated and successfully mitigated. And sometimes despite the
mitigation, too.
Or maybe: Extrapolation works better when it’s applied to one
graph at a time. :)
--
David R