Kieren MacMillan writes: >> The situation is not really all that unfavorable for LilyPond. > > Having been “in the trenches” perhaps more than most others on this > list, I can tell you the situation *is* really all that unfavorable > for Lilypond. > > In my opinion, there are only two things that will ever change this: > 1. A real, live, useable, full-functioned GUI
This is *exactly* why I've been playing/experimenting with GUI backends/frontends since 2004. If you haven't done so, please have a look at Schikkers List http://lilypond.org/schikkers and come help me out! If only to lure people over to LilyPond, increase its potential user base. > (so that users *never* have to see Lilypond “code”); or and this is what I don't understand. My idea is exactly the opposite: to show people the corresponding text input also, so that they have a very easy way to learn it and may at their convenience choose to change their primary focus of input to text input or GUI, depending on the situation at hand. I hear this as the biggest complaint against GUI based text processors, many people still long for the days of Word Perfect with it's "underwater screen". However, show them LaTeX (or even Lyx) and they run. As I said, I have ideas but do not quite understand how people choose to use computers. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.nl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user