Hi,
Am 22.02.23 um 12:45 schrieb Andrew Bernard:
Most employed people who work use email daily and countless people
understand folders and filters.
Well... I cordially invite you to come visit us and marvel at what one
encounters when working in a thoroughly non-technical environment like,
for example, a music university :-). E-Mail, yes; folders, probably;
automatic filtering, no way.
[Re Musescore, that may have been an offhand reference just to a
random competing application but on the forum page it is stated: "Log
in to post new content in the forum."
https://musescore.org/en/forum
]
Yes, it was a more-or-less random reference to the most important
"competing" (if that term is applicable at all) free software music
typesetting system. But not because MuseScore offers a more accessible
forum - I have no idea how that works there -, but because MuseScore
looks to non-technical people more like what they expect from a music
typesetting system. LilyPond _is_ esoteric. And although I'm quite
skeptical about its suitability as engraving program for
non-technically-minded musicians, I think we don't have to increase the
barrier more than necessary.
Frankly, even I myself am using MuseScore for a lot of "simple music
typesetting" tasks these days (having gotten to know it better during
the pandemic): I only turn to LilyPond now for "serious stuff that
should look seriously great".
But of course this discussion borders on being OT.
Lukas
