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From: | Urs Liska |
Subject: | (hypothetical) Availability of LilyPond engravers |
Date: | Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:03:07 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 |
Hi all,<disclaimer>this is more or less hypothetical and nothing to be excited about</disclaimer>. I realize that I don't have a real idea about the size of our community, and particularly regarding the availability of music typesetters who could offer reliably continuous engraving services.
If I should be asked to engrave a big score (as fast as possible) in a commercial context and wouldn't want to reply "well, I will ask around and see how many people I can get together", what could I say? Would it be realistic to say that we could (at any time) provide a team of 10 quailfied engravers working full time on a project? Or 15-20 working half time? And what if it were a request for continuous work? Is it realistic to say there are always enough engravers at hand to accept work?
I feel that one aspect that makes publishers hesitate to consider LilyPond is exactly this question: They know that there will always be a sufficient number of available and qualified Finale and Sibelius users, and presumably even Score users, but they don't have an idea about this with LilyPond.
Any opinions or estimates? Urs
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