17 Jun
2003
17 Jun
'03
12:41 p.m.
>>>> "Chris" == Chris Cannam
<cannam(a)all-day-breakfast.com> writes:
Chris> Both do "proper" notation layout, in the sense that they don't
just
Chris> stick the notes at positions proportional to their times and end up
Chris> with a complete mess as some sequencers do (MusE and Brahms for
Chris> example, if I remember correctly).
Chris> Neither of them does it as well as Sibelius or Finale.
That's a matter of opinion. Doing unbarred music in Sibelius is
impossible, or close to it, and in Finale it takes a fair amount of
tweaking. If you spend the Finale note-value tweaking time on
tweaking the spacing parameters in lilypond, you can arguably get a
better output from lilypond.
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