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David Kastrup |
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Re: A must-see for anybody on this list |
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Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:17:36 +0100 |
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Joseph Rushton Wakeling <address@hidden> writes:
> On 02/14/2013 01:36 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
>> a) a reliable and scaleable mechanism to make individual problems go
>> away by manual labor. WYSIWYG systems offer that. I think that
>> Frescobaldi tries offering a bit of that as well.
>
> The really simple way of putting this: "It needs to be as easy as
> possible to tweak stuff where you don't like the automatic results."
>
> From a publisher point of view I think also ease of creating a "house
> style" probably plays a large part. I don't personally find it very
> easy to create something like a "style sheet" for LP.
>
>> Sibelius has thrown away mechanism b) by dismissing their development
>> team. Its problems are there to stay, but you can fix up a lot of them
>> manually.
>
> They closed down the longstanding UK-based development and R&D team,
> but it's a bit of a stretch to say that they will no longer be
> offering commercial development support on Sibelius -- they're forming
> a new development team in Ukraine. It may not be as high quality as
> it was previously.
Uh, they fired the original developers and their team without much of a
migration strategy. It is unlikely that substantial new developments
are planned, or this would have been an economically stupid course.
--
David Kastrup
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