Re: Comparison of Musescore, Sibelius and Dorico -- would like to add Lilypond

[Shane Brandes]

Is there anything on that list that Lilypond doesn't do? What do they
mean by jazz articulations?

-Shane
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 3:04 PM David Bellows <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Urs,
>
> >I think it would be good to add our stuff to the chart (not necessarily much 
> >to the comments section).
>
> If the owner of the spreadsheet allows it, then definitely. I don't
> know them personally so I don't know how they feel about that. I
> suppose we could create our own version if they do not agree. I'm one
> of the mods in that sub so I'll be making the chart a permanent link
> in the sub so either way would work (and obviously we can link to it
> from anywhere else we'd like).
>
> > not only check the given items with yes/no but also freely add to the list
>
> I agree. The OP did ask for omissions/corrections so I would think
> these (and others) would apply.
>
> > find a way to plug the "programmability" aspect (vs. applying plugins 
> > after-the-fact),    with things like complete extensibility with 
> > syntactical means, conditional layout per engraving target ...    (Maybe 
> > this would even warrant a new tab in the sheet)
>
> One of Lilypond's biggest strengths! Working out meaningful/useful
> parallels with the other programs would be the issue, I'm guessing?
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 11:50 AM David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Karlin High <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > On 11/20/2018 12:38 PM, David Bellows wrote:
> > >> Over in the /r/composer sub on Reddit, a user put together a chart
> > >> listing features of Musescore, Sibelius and Dorico.
> > >
> > > I remember seeing some past work done with comparing LilyPond to other
> > > software.
> > >
> > > <https://github.com/engraving-challenges/main>
> > > <https://lilypondblog.org/category/comparisons/>
> > >
> > > Other list members here may have more recent references or info.
> >
> > I think it's always a bit of a squeeze to compare LilyPond with other
> > programs, particularly in the "challenges" department since the
> > challenge is often more to the user than to the program, LilyPond being
> > an open architecture with user-extensible functionality to a much larger
> > degree than other programs.
> >
> > So a particularly user may set a checkmark "yes, can do" while this does
> > not actually hold for a typical user without asking on the mailing list.
> >
> > --
> > David Kastrup
>
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