I have been compiling some examples of LilyPond's typesetting compared
with those of well-known alternatives:
http://denemo.org/CompareScorewriters
If anyone can provide better examples - these are just taken from
published work that I could find with a quick search - then please let
me know - especially if I am not doing LilyPond justice.
My examples have a common origin in MusicXML files, but there may be
some other way of standardizing the comparisons (short of re-typing
music examples...).
Richard
It's nice to have these comparisons, but I have a couple of comments:
- You should specify what the version number of the respective programs.
Several of the similar comparisons that have been discussed earlier on
the list, have been based on fairly old versions of Finale and Sibelius,
which may be unfair.
- I really like that you point out that you are not fully certain how
much tweaking was used in the original typesettings, but it would of
course be even better to have example where you have this knowledge. If
you search the mailing list archives, you should find several examples
of similar comparisons and at least one or two of these included a
fairly detailed comparison of the amount of tweaking that was needed for
the different programs.
- In the Sibelius comparison, it's really a pity that you didn't include
the correct lyrics. The alignment and layout of lyrics is clearly an
important issue in music typesetting, so I don't agree with the comment
that these are not important. In particular, it's a pity that they dummy
lyrics you have inserted for the Denemo/LilyPond version doesn't use
correct hyphens, i.e.
Lo -- rem ip -- sum
instead of
Lo- rem ip- sum
for example. The current example gives the false impression that
Denemo/LilyPond isn't able to handle hyphens correctly.
Regards
/Mats
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