Hi, On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <michael.str...@boehringer-ingelheim.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to share some thoughts about piano music with you. > [...] > > Lilypond does in my opinion ~70% perfect job, but takes too much control. > The score looks pretty beautiful at the first glance, but to make it perfekt > and complete, you would need such a lot of tweaks or even know how about how > to create scheme functions just to get more control over what lilypond does > with the output. So the effort for tweaking exceeds the effort you have in > Score by far.
I agree that typesetting piano music is probably the most difficult thing to do well in Lilypond. > I am a software developer and have know how about C/C++ and Java but I’m not > willing to learn a new programming language just for the sake of music > notation. If you mean "i don't like the idea of having to create complex Scheme functions to get professional engraving results", i agree. > My impression is, that lilypond is designed for choir-, orchestral- and > chambermusic- scores, even the approach of how music is entered, shows that. You mean that music is entered sequentially, and you cannot see voices in parallel? Actually, i have an idea how to improve it. Look for "Parallel music view" thread that i will post shortly on user list. cheers, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user