9 Jul
2004
9 Jul
'04
1:20 p.m.
Michal Seta wrote:
I'm sorry but I don't think Finale or any
clone of it should exist in
linux. It became a de facto standard because it used to be the only
decent quality consummer desktop music publishing app. Just because
most of linux users/developers come from Windows background does not
mean we should all go for the same kinds of solutions. A lot of them
are bad. I understand that users have certain work habits so some
middle ground needs be found... sometimes.
It's not about work habits for me.
I have not been interested in music editing at all until I have married
a musician lady in early 2003. She never did computer music editing too.
And she's the classical kind of musician, preferring acoustic
instruments and such; for her the PC is an editing and typesetting tool
for making scores she will play on a very real piano.
With Finale, she is at ease with her existing skills. She is trained to
think of the score and see the score! But wilh Lilypond and such, she in
effect needs to learn *programming* - a very different thing from what
classical musicians do.
Yours, Mikhail Ramendik