Re: short Musikmesse minutes

[Urs Liska]

Am 20.03.2014 10:25, schrieb David Kastrup:
> Francois Planiol <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Lily is free and that is a biiiig problem, for salesmen.
> >
> > Remember the incandescent lamp? It was not expensive enough and
> > forcedly replaced by a dangerous CFL with a higher margin for
> > everybody except the end-customer. So forget it, when it is free. Just
> > even worse for commerce. (sure there is not some trust-negociations
> > between engraving programs companies and music publishing job?)
>
> Free is not a problem but it also is not much of a selling point for
> in-house software as pretty much all acquisition costs are dwarfed by
> running expenses, particularly personnel.  How expensive is personnel
> that can be trained to work with LilyPond, and how fast are they going
> to crank out stuff?  And most importantly: when there are problems, is
> there a reliable place you can throw money at to make them go away?

I think the concept of versioned collaboration offers an interesting 
path here: Start out with a project commissioned to LilyPond experts. 
The lectors will learn very fast how to apply fixes to the musical text. 
And they (and the existing engravers) can immediately get experiences on 
real-life projects. That doesn't replace some fundamental training, but 
is definitely more attractive than telling them to start their learning 
curve from { a b c }.

...


> I think that LilyPond's main strength is transformative use: different
> page formats, different media, different transpositions, individual
> variations.

Yes, and I have/had the impression that it _is_ possible now to promote 
this feature. Of course I don't expect the final outcome to match my 
current enthusiasm, but I'll surely keep you informed about my progress.

Urs