Re: LilyPond compared

[Andrew Bernard]

The person who set this cannot even get the E flats all having flats. 
Comparisons such as this are odious, for a start because Dorico uses 
SmuFL fonts and apart from Bravura there are now about 20 SMuFL fonts 
available, all quite different in terms of accidental shape and such 
details, so what is being compared here? You can't comment on Dorico 
accidentals because of this.

Also, as a heavy Dorico user myself, Dorico supports a lot of tweaking 
options for accidentals and accidental ordering, for example: Stacking 
order of accidentals in chords in a single voice: Reflect left-right 
order of notes, or Ignore left-right order of notes. Accidental spacing 
can be very fine tuned as well. Dorico is very option driven, and can be 
customised to reflect the users style to a high degree. I do not agree 
that Dorico 'gets so much wrong'. What does it get wrong here?

Lilypond does a fine job which is why I have used it for years, but I 
not agree that it is clearly superior compared to the state of 
development of Dorico. I think they are on a par.

As for the supposed objectivity of 'out of the box with no tweaking',  
only casual users would do no setting adjustments in any of these 
programs - the whole point is they are all very flexible.

Andrew