Re: Lilypond lobbying?

[Dmytro O. Redchuk]

On Thu 18 Aug 2011, 17:42 Robert Schmaus wrote:
> I even feel I have to come to those guys' defence - zero of my
> professional as well as non-professional musical friends knew (of)
> LilyPond before I told them, and I don't think many of them will use it
Yes, many of people around me are *very* professional in their fields
(composers, musicians, choir-meisters, specialists in music's history
etc-etc); however, they've never heard about lilypond before I told them, and
they'd never use it after I told...

Probably, because of some/many of them are 60 and above, who knows... Anyway,
I would never say they are stupid.

I have prepared (and successfully published) some books with LaTeX (some of
them with lilypond-engraved scores, one is a score book, 500+ pages of scores,
illustrated a lot, thanks to LaTeX, again) -- but when I am asked "why latex?
why lilypond?" I say that:
  - I like lilypond very much!!!
  - it's far more convenient for me to use plain text files (and
    lilypond-book, and make, and tools like inkscape with cmdline capabilities
    etc-etc-etc);
  - *I could not use Finale/InDesign for that at all*, because I am too stupid
    to use so complicated tools... :O)

Yes! Really -- I could not use that tools at all. Well, I guess I could, but
why work so hard? -- I bet they, those people around me, think the same about
me: why work so hard?..


My school teacher, who taught me physics, said that "if you don't understand
that handbook, it very probably just means that that handbook author's
gyrus of the brain are crinkled in another direction than yours".



On Thu 18 Aug 2011, 11:03 Francois Planiol wrote:
> Dear Dmytro,
> 
> I was 20 y in Germany, a highly developped land. Now in Colombia, a
> want-to-emerge third-world-land. I see everywhere the same pattern
> (France too):
> - Buy, if this costs a lot this will be better,
[...]

> 2011/8/18, Dmytro O. Redchuk <address@hidden>:
> > :-)
> >
> > ps. Not too constructive criticism, I'd say.
I wanted to say that every critisicm can be either constructive or
destructive (it can not be neutral).

It should be constructive, I'd say.

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  Dmytro O. Redchuk                        "Easy to use" is easy to say.
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