Re: Manual engraving video

[Erik Sandberg]

On Wednesday 22 November 2006 09:20, Arvid Grøtting wrote:
> Joseph Haig <josephhaig <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Note the second comment: "It will be a long time before this beautiful
> > process can be replicated by computers."  Erm ...
>
> It took Henle three years, from the video was made in 1997 until they
> stopped hand-engraving in 2000.  Three years should not be a long time from
> a music publisher's point of view...

The fact that they chose to switch to computer-engraving doesn't contradict 
that hand-engraving is far better; see:
http://lilypond.org/web/about/automated-engraving/introduction.html

-- 
Erik