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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: LilyPond examples
From:       Jonathan Kulp <jonlancekulp () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-10-29 11:38:26
Message-ID: 49084B32.3050507 () gmail ! com
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Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
>>
> 
> Let me begin by saying thanks to everyone who offered ideas.
> 
> As it turned out, the best examples I could readily find were the
> examples in the documentation. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to show
> the examples via the projector, but I was able to give a good run down
> of what LilyPond was capable of and hand around a few of my better
> looking scores. Internet access is expensive at the conference centre,
> so I went along with various installers and the documentation tarball
> and gave copies to any who wanted it.
> 
> One person asked for a copy of the installer there and then, and had a
> good read of the docs that night. She was hooked---she'd wanted some
> pro-quality typesetting software but wasn't able to afford the usual
> suspects. Another gentleman was intrigued when he saw an input file
> I'd been working on---he's well into his seventies, but knew a
> programming language when he saw one! He'd just laid out AU$600+ for
> the latest Finale, though, and was almost disappointed.
> 
> Of everyone there, only one person had heard of LilyPond---a
> composition student who is into some pretty weird (to me!) stuff. When
> I showed him some of the exotic timing LilyPond does well, he was
> pretty excited, and wants to give it a go as well.
> 
> I was quite proud when somebody got up to show off the latest
> Sibelius. He had a score which he sent around, commenting how good the
> output was and how it produced publication quality files. Yet it was
> full of collisions and other not-very-niceties. If it were a
> competition, LilyPond would have won easily.
> 
> Although Lily didn't get many takers at the workshop, various comments
> I received afterwards suggest to me that the heavy hitters in music in
> my denomination are prepared to take LilyPond seriously, even if they
> don't use it personally. So for ten or fifteen minutes' work, I think
> we had a success!
> 
Thanks for the report.  If you helped even one person avoid spending all 
that money on a proprietary app, then it was worth the effort.  Maybe 
we'll be seeing the new users on the list soon. :)

Jon
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Jonathan Kulp
http://www.jonathankulp.com



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