Why LilyPond?

2011-02-19 Thread Phil Holmes
My wife has just asked and I don't know the answer.  Why is LilyPond called 
LilyPond?


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Phil Holmes



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Re: Why LilyPond?

2011-02-19 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:47:01PM -, Phil Holmes wrote:
 My wife has just asked and I don't know the answer.  Why is LilyPond
 called LilyPond?

It's on the old webpages, and one of the things I've had in the
back of my mind that we might want to integrate into the new
docs+web.
http://lilypond.org/web/about/name

Cheers,
- Graham

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Re: Why LilyPond?

2011-02-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/19/11 9:47 AM, Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net wrote:

 My wife has just asked and I don't know the answer.  Why is LilyPond called
 LilyPond?
 

http://lilypond.org/web/about/name



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Re: Why LilyPond?

2011-02-19 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/2/19 Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu:
 On 2/19/11 9:47 AM, Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net wrote:

 My wife has just asked and I don't know the answer.  Why is LilyPond called
 LilyPond?


 http://lilypond.org/web/about/name

And the thread starting at
http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-devel@gnu.org/msg21147.html for
the cheese names in lilypond's fonts
-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com

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Re: Why LilyPond?

2011-02-19 Thread Michael Ellis
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.comwrote:

  On 2/19/11 9:47 AM, Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net wrote:
 
  My wife has just asked and I don't know the answer.  Why is LilyPond
 called
  LilyPond?
 
 
  http://lilypond.org/web/about/name



Telling your wife such a romantic story could be risky -- unless you've
already created something equally wonderful and named it for her!

Cheers,
Mike
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Re: Why LilyPond?

2011-02-19 Thread Brett McCoy
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Graham Percival
gra...@percival-music.ca wrote:
 On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:47:01PM -, Phil Holmes wrote:
 My wife has just asked and I don't know the answer.  Why is LilyPond
 called LilyPond?

 It's on the old webpages, and one of the things I've had in the
 back of my mind that we might want to integrate into the new
 docs+web.
 http://lilypond.org/web/about/name

That's a great story... Rosegarden  Lilypond are my two most used
composing tools!

-- 
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com

In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it,
it would overturn the world.
    -- Jelaleddin Rumi

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