Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net> writes: > On 02/14/2013 01:36 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> a) a reliable and scaleable mechanism to make individual problems go >> away by manual labor. WYSIWYG systems offer that. I think that >> Frescobaldi tries offering a bit of that as well. > > The really simple way of putting this: "It needs to be as easy as > possible to tweak stuff where you don't like the automatic results." > > From a publisher point of view I think also ease of creating a "house > style" probably plays a large part. I don't personally find it very > easy to create something like a "style sheet" for LP. > >> Sibelius has thrown away mechanism b) by dismissing their development >> team. Its problems are there to stay, but you can fix up a lot of them >> manually. > > They closed down the longstanding UK-based development and R&D team, > but it's a bit of a stretch to say that they will no longer be > offering commercial development support on Sibelius -- they're forming > a new development team in Ukraine. It may not be as high quality as > it was previously.
Uh, they fired the original developers and their team without much of a migration strategy. It is unlikely that substantial new developments are planned, or this would have been an economically stupid course. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
