Re: problematic commit

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Thu, 10/28/10, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Graham Percival <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: problematic commit
> To: "Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Jonathan Wilkes" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010, 12:11 AM
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:13:14PM
> +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Graham Percival
> > <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > > Zing!  That was a cheap shot.
> > 
> > What can I say? You taught me well, Master :-)
> 
> Yeah, but I keep it classy, Valentine!  I mean, making
> fun of
> somebody's girly name is high culture, whereas pointing out
> a lack
> of "bling" in an open-source project is just plain rude.
> 
> > As for changing direction of ties, I really really
> doubt that it's
> > more easily achieved in Finale than in Lily. At least,
> it wasn't back
> > when I did use these apps.

It's just <ctrl-f> for "flip".

> 
> Dude, there's a ton of things that Finale does
> easier.  You want
> some symbol somewhere?  Just drag it there with the
> mouse, look at
> it, drag it somewhere else.
> 
> Now, you know, and I know, that this doesn't scale nicely
> to
> dealing with a hundred-page score, particularly if you want
> to
> change margins or page sizes or whatnot -- you'd need to
> manually
> redo all your absolutely positioned marks.  

In Finale, text, tempi, articulations, etc. are 
all connected to notes or staves.  Well, 
there's a tool to position absolutely but it's 
only used for titles.

> But I'd
> bet that most
> Finale users don't do anything more complicated than a
> 3-page
> arrangement of "Jingle Bells" for SATB+piano, so the
> "scaling"
> argument is hard to make.

They did a study about that and it has been 
scientifically proven.

> 
> LilyPond is not the best tool for every person in the
> world, and
> there's nothing wrong with admitting that.

That's true, but LilypondTool + Lily is a 
GUI.  If the ruler tool could automatically 
fill in the context/grob/property for markup 
and articulations, one would have pretty much 
the same feature as click-dragging stuff in 
Finale.  And if that feature were present, I 
doubt anyone would complain about the 
resulting efficiency in score entry.  It's 
simply a useful tool whether it's in Finale, 
Lilypond, or Microsoft ScoreKeeper Pro*.

-Jonathan

* (tm)

> 
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>