Re: Do we really offer the future?

[Federico Bruni]

2015-04-20 4:33 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bernard <address@hidden>:

So I don’t quite understand the need to help out these companies. What exactly is the motivation? What would they put back to the lilypond development effort?

Maybe nothing, but never say never...

Possible advantages:

- you, as a typesetter, may be allowed to submit lilypond projects to them. I don't know this market but I guess that a publishing company wants to own the source files (they can understand and edit) and not just the PDF.

- if they use LilyPond they may be interested in sponsoring some features.

- if LilyPond was used by some of the major publishing companies, it would get a better "status" and be accepted in music schools. If more students learned using lilypond, they might contribute to Mutopia.