praise (and a sample)

[Kieren Richard MacMillan]

Hey, everyone --

Just wanted to take this opportunity to say again how great I think 
Lilypond is, and pass on my thanks and kudos to the development team 
for their incredible work. I've never seen anything approaching the 
output that I get from Lilypond -- I'm totally confident that my music 
publishing needs will be fulfilled beyond my expectations using this 
great application.

To show off Lilypond (even though I'm preaching to the choir here!), 
here's a link to the first page of my "Upside-Down Rag", which is 
basically untweaked Lilypond output (beyond some text placement and tie 
adjustment done in Illustrator), and looks better than most recent 
"professional" publications I've compared it to (q.v., just about any 
Warner Bros. score, and even many of the most recent by "the old 
houses"):

      <http://216.138.213.106/kmac/music/scores/UpsideDownRag.pdf>

Beat that, Finale/Sibelius/Igor/whatever!!!  =)

With heartfelt thanks,
Kieren.

p.s. All my final engraved and printed files will include a colophon in 
which Lilypond will be conspicuously mentioned!