> As an untrained but interested bystander/hobbyist, the scores engraved by Lilypond are orders of magnitude better than those produced by the mainstream WYSIWY

> As an untrained but interested bystander/hobbyist, the scores engraved by Lilypond are orders of magnitude better than those produced by the mainstream WYSIWYG editors, in the same "I deeply care about typography" sort of way that you get from documents produced with TeX but not Word or Google Docs. This deep care is documented in the "Essay on automated music engraving" in the Lilypond docs: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/essay-big-page.html http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/essay-big-page.h... Previously discussed (I guess -- different title and dead link): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1515262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1515262