Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Tim McNamara" <address@hidden>
To: "LilyPond Users" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software


> Similarly LilyPond is probably not the most appropriate tool for most 
> people just looking to print out some chord charts for their coffee house 
> open mic night.  I don't think that it's presented as the tool for those 
> folks- LilyPond is aimed at the people who want that fine-grained control 
> over output (although for people like me, writing lead sheets for jazz 
> combos, the default ways of doing things works well for almost everything 
> and only a few tweaks are necessary.  A few minutes and I've got charts 
> for everyone that are vastly more readable than Real Book charts).  I find 
> it faster than MuseScore, which I also tried, and the output is vastly 
> better than Finale.

To a large extent, that was exactly what started me with Lily.  I use 
Windows and a low cost notation tool that doesn't do anything like decent 
printing.  I just wanted something that printed out better, and wasn't 
expensive.  I found Lily and have been with her ever since.

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Phil Holmes