Re: LilyPond compared

[Michael Gerdau]

> 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.

I disagree with that claim. I'm typesetting new pieces for practical 
choir use almost on a weekly basis and I simply do not have the time to 
do setting adjustments unless it is very obviously broken.

It is fine that Dorico (and AFAIK Finale as well) provide a vast amount 
of tweaking possibilities to adjust spacing and other things.

For my every day use it is important how much or rather how little 
tweaking effort I have to invest to get a fairly decent job done.

In that department Lilypond trounces the competition.

Kind regards,
Michael
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