I think there are a couple of memorable quotes here for the website... Do we now have a team that takes care of this?
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Neil Thornock <neilthorn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The way that music is entered for LilyPond causes me to think in a more >> musical way - there have been times when I've been stumped as to how to >> tell Lily to engrave something, only to realize that even if I did get >> it exactly as the composer wanted, the music would be confusing to read. >> LilyPond makes it much easier for me to work in my dual editor+engraver >> role. > > From a compositional point of view, Finale encourages the worst kind > of laziness. LilyPond, by the manner in which it encourages a focus > on the notational details, makes me think more critically toward my > musical material. LilyPond also encourages a kind of healthy > perfectionism, because control over any element of the score *is* > possible. Finale keeps resetting to certain bad defaults, and > eventually the typesetter caves and goes with it. But with Lily I > can't be lazy about it. And that has translated itself into my > composition work. It's been a heaven send that way. > > -- > Neil Thornock, D.M. > Assistant Professor of Music > Composition/Theory > Brigham Young University > http://neilthornock.net > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
