[PD] [OT] Music Notation in linux

[Lorenzo Sutton]

On 05/03/12 20:22, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> Le 2012-03-05 à 19:58:00, Lorenzo Sutton a écrit :
>
>> It can be dangerous/misleading to extract the general rule from one
>> single, very specific example like this, and then re-apply it to a
>> totally different domain/example.
>
> Yes, but then, the reasoning that you stated is not what you actually
> meant. You're not trying to say that it doesn't make sense to use
> something that is primarily a typesetting system, to do midi output. It
> may be because Lilypond in particular is bad at this task in particular,
> but you already are generalising by calling it « a midi creator » and
> « a typesetting system » and that a fact about the latter in general
> justifies a statement about the former in general.
>
> I'm not saying that I really expressed myself well in yesterday's
> reply... It was a bad way to put it.

No problem, I can see what you meant. I was just trying to point out 
that the nuances of language in my opinion *are* important. email as a 
medium doesn't help because it is purely written text :)
Lorenzo.