Re: did shaped note support ever get added?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Don't misinterpret me, I'm just talking about the group of LilyPond
users that make themselves heard on the mailing list. Only two requests
during the 8 years that LilyPond has existed is very little compared
to the amount of emails we have seen about other features.

Also, I'm not the one taking any decisions, that's done by the all the
hackers that contribute to this piece of free software.

   /Mats

Jonathan Walther wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:23:12AM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > Just as some other feature requests that pop up on the mailing list,
> > the feature would be useful to a fairly narrow group of users
>
>
> Over there in Europe, it can look like we are only a "narrow" group of
> users, but here in North America there are a LOT of people who enjoy
> singing music that is in shaped note format.  A lot of hymnals are still
> being printed in shaped notes.
>
> Finale did add shaped note support to their product for a reason; the
> market was there!  We North Americans do preserve some items of history
> that Europe has shed.  Do not discriminate against us on that account.
>
> Jonathan

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