Hi Charles,

There is nobody that regards lilypond as a tool for composition, that is
not the intended use of the program. It is a highly advanced technical
environment for fine engraving of scores, completely unsuited to 'rapid
prototyping'. In the same way, I am pretty sure no composers wrote directly
to copper in the first instance.

Andrew



On 29 January 2017 at 09:21, Charles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> A composer of the past would surely have been delighted to have a tool
> like Lilypond to format finished works. But would Bach have developed
> invertible fugues with it?  Maybe a sculptor needs to see the evolving
> stone for inspiration? Likely, a painter needs a canvas rather than a
> formal specification? In the mid-Eighties I wrote my doctoral thesis at a
> WYSIWYG editor without recourse to paper, developing the maths by
> meditating on the screen. A few years later the whole thing had to be
> reformatted in LaTex for a book publisher. There’s no way I would have
> chosen to manipulate equations in that ungainly format. So Lilypond is
> presumably a boon for publishing, but probably inferior to a sheet of paper
> when it comes to composition and arranging.
>
>
>

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