Re: Policy for posts from non-members

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi,

Am 22.02.23 um 12:45 schrieb Andrew Bernard:
> Most employed people who work use email daily and countless people 
> understand folders and filters.
Well... I cordially invite you to come visit us and marvel at what one 
encounters when working in a thoroughly non-technical environment like, 
for example, a music university :-). E-Mail, yes; folders, probably; 
automatic filtering, no way.
> [Re Musescore, that may have been an offhand reference just to a 
> random competing application but on the forum page it is stated: "Log 
> in to post new content in the forum."
>
> https://musescore.org/en/forum
>
> ]

Yes, it was a more-or-less random reference to the most important 
"competing" (if that term is applicable at all) free software music 
typesetting system. But not because MuseScore offers a more accessible 
forum - I have no idea how that works there -, but because MuseScore 
looks to non-technical people more like what they expect from a music 
typesetting system. LilyPond _is_ esoteric. And although I'm quite 
skeptical about its suitability as engraving program for 
non-technically-minded musicians, I think we don't have to increase the 
barrier more than necessary.
Frankly, even I myself am using MuseScore for a lot of "simple music 
typesetting" tasks these days (having gotten to know it better during 
the pandemic): I only turn to LilyPond now for "serious stuff that 
should look seriously great".

But of course this discussion borders on being OT.

Lukas