Re: Sponsoring lilypond development Was Re: Score parts: instrument and duration

[Erik Sandberg]

On Thursday 18 August 2005 11.52, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > So it should be clear by now where I stand: I think it's an obvious
> > transition for SCORE users to start moving over the Lily. They're
> > reluctant to give up the tool, of course, because of its
> > sophistication, but I think that literally every 2 or 3 weeks the
> > reasons to jump to Lily increase, even for the community of
> > professionals currently working in SCORE.
>
> I think there is a one big problem with going to LilyPond for the
> majority of SCORE users. Adding a tweak is clumsy, and you have to rerun
> the program to see the result. Also the result of a tweak is less
> predictable, as anything besides extra-offset might impact spacing, line
> breaking, etc.  Also, working with multi-page documents is a nightmare,
> since page breaks are hard to get right.

Did you try \pageBreak? :) IMHO, perfect page breaks is one of the things that 
_must_ use human judgement; a machine knows too little to set all penalties 
correctly. Once you have inserted your \pageBreaks, what's the nightmare?

-- 
Erik