--- Mikhail Ramendik <mr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Michal Seta wrote: > > > I'm sorry but I don't think Finale or any clone of > it should exist in > > linux. It became a de facto standard because it > used to be the only > > decent quality consummer desktop music publishing > app. Just because > > most of linux users/developers come from Windows > background does not > > mean we should all go for the same kinds of > solutions. A lot of them > > are bad. I understand that users have certain > work habits so some > > middle ground needs be found... sometimes. > > It's not about work habits for me. > > I have not been interested in music editing at all > until I have married > a musician lady in early 2003. She never did > computer music editing too. > And she's the classical kind of musician, preferring > acoustic > instruments and such; for her the PC is an editing > and typesetting tool > for making scores she will play on a very real > piano. > > With Finale, she is at ease with her existing > skills. She is trained to > think of the score and see the score! But wilh > Lilypond and such, she in > effect needs to learn *programming* - a very > different thing from what > classical musicians do. > > Yours, Mikhail Ramendik > > > It is interesting because I subscribe to a classical guitar newsgroup and, like Dubya, WYSIWYG vs. coding notation programmes is a hot and divisive topic. I wonder if there is some sort of brain lateralization issue here (I'm left-handed for what it is worth). What I have always found unsatisfactory about pointy-clicky music notation programmes is that there are far too many built-in formatting assumptions made about your intended layout. I mostly notate classical guitar music which is very dense and complex - often there are three independent voices on one stave. For me, coding is as close as you can get (except for a copper engraving plate) to starting out with a blank page and laying things out as you want. You are not limited to a handful of choices from a drop down menu or a dialog box. ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
