On Aug 18, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Neil Thornock wrote: > It may be that the will want the FinSib file of the winning piece and > only have editing capabilities with one of those two formats. > > Still, it's sad. >
I didn't think of this...you're right that it's possible, but given the numerous hacks one can do in either of these formats to freeze line breaks / position / etc. and given how terrible the scores can look if one starts to break these hacks to devise alternate paginations / page sizes / headers / footers / etc., I think that if this is the case, then the rule was created by people who aren't anticipating the crazy stuff that composers will do with Finale or are shaping their decision in light of the perceived edibility of the score. What it may be worth lobbying for, then, is simply that people hold composers (or anyone, really) to the standard of being able to reproduce their scores in a set of reasonable substitute formats and to edit their scores along reasonable guidelines when requested. Reasonable is, say, A4 to letter paper, but not quicktime movie to A4 paper (or if this is the case, it needs to be a flip-book of A4 paper). It is trivial in LilyPond to add "edited by so and so" to the bottom of a document, and while this is an extra burden for the composer, by outsourcing the burden to the submitting composer / musicologist / whoever, it opens up participation to a wider range of people. My original question still stands, though. I think that it is worth it for a community of users of any free software (where I mean free in every sense of the term) to be active in contacting organizations whose rules are hostile to the free usage of software. It helps organizations learn about free software (both the software itself and the mentality of freedom behind the software), thereby encouraging these organizations to adopt policies that are conducive to this type of free-ness / free-dom. Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
