X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fuser%2Fpreface.itely;h=d82632e77f55985fd26339759a26318fe4cdb1f5;hb=219e295ae144a5bc98f7893d4845b0866a6a1a21;hp=18e1186b01e21c3441effe63b66cf6ae566b905a;hpb=37d72d28459b780761f912b6795ca213e9a5db9d;p=lilypond.git diff --git a/Documentation/user/preface.itely b/Documentation/user/preface.itely index 18e1186b01..d82632e77f 100644 --- a/Documentation/user/preface.itely +++ b/Documentation/user/preface.itely @@ -1,60 +1,59 @@ -@comment @c -*-texinfo-*- +@c -*- coding: utf-8; mode: texinfo; -*- +@c This file is part of lilypond.tely +@ignore + Translation of GIT committish: FILL-IN-HEAD-COMMITTISH + + When revising a translation, copy the HEAD committish of the + version that you are working on. See TRANSLATION for details. +@end ignore + +@c \version "2.12.0" @node Preface @unnumbered Preface It must have been during a rehearsal of the EJE (Eindhoven Youth -Orchestra), somewhere in 1995 that Jan, one of the cranked violists +Orchestra), somewhere in 1995 that Jan, one of the cranked violists, told Han-Wen, one of the distorted French horn players, about the grand new project he was working on. It was an automated system for printing music (to be precise, it was MPP, a preprocessor for MusiXTeX). As it happened, Han-Wen accidentally wanted to print out some parts from a score, so he started looking at the software, and he -quickly got hooked. It was decided that MPP was a dead end. After -lots of philosophizing and heated e-mail exchanges Han-Wen started +quickly got hooked. It was decided that MPP was a dead end. After +lots of philosophizing and heated email exchanges, Han-Wen started LilyPond in 1996. This time, Jan got sucked into Han-Wen's new project. In some ways, developing a computer program is like learning to play -an instrument. In the beginning, discovering how it works is fun, and -the things you cannot do are challenging. After the initial excitement, -you have to practice and practice. Scales and studies can be dull, and -if you are not motivated by others---teachers, conductors or -audience---it is very tempting to give up. You continue, and gradually -playing becomes a part of your life. Some days it comes naturally, and +an instrument. In the beginning, discovering how it works is fun, and +the things you cannot do are challenging. After the initial excitement, +you have to practice and practice. Scales and studies can be dull, and +if you are not motivated by others -- teachers, conductors or +audience -- it is very tempting to give up. You continue, and gradually +playing becomes a part of your life. Some days it comes naturally, and it is wonderful, and on some days it just does not work, but you keep playing, day after day. -Like making music, working on LilyPond is can be dull work, and on -some days it feels like plodding through a morass of -bugs. Nevertheless, it has become a part of our life, and we keep -doing it. Probably the most important motivation is that our program -actually does something useful for people. When we browse around the -net we find many people that use LilyPond, and produce impressive -pieces of sheet music. Seeing that still feels unreal, but in a very -pleasant way. +Like making music, working on LilyPond can be dull work, and on +some days it feels like plodding through a morass of bugs. +Nevertheless, it has become a part of our life, and we keep doing it. +Probably the most important motivation is that our program actually +does something useful for people. When we browse around the net we +find many people who use LilyPond, and produce impressive pieces of +sheet music. Seeing that feels unreal, but in a very pleasant way. Our users not only give us good vibes by using our program, many of -them also help us by giving suggestions and sending bugreports. So -first and foremost, we would like to thank all users that sent us -bugreports, gave suggestions or contributed in any other way to -LilyPond. - -We would also like to thank the following people: Mats Bengtsson for -the incountable number of questions he answered on the mailing list, -and Rune Zedeler for his energy in finding and fixing bugs. Nicola -Bernardini for inviting us to his workshop on music publishing, which -was truly a masterclass, and Heinz Stolba and James Ingram for -teaching us there. - -Playing and printing music is more than nice analogy. Programming +them also help us by giving suggestions and sending bug reports, so we +would like to thank all users that sent us bug reports, gave +suggestions or contributed in any other way to LilyPond. + +Playing and printing music is more than a nice analogy. Programming together is a lot of fun, and helping people is deeply satisfying, but ultimately, working on LilyPond is a way to express our deep love for -music. May it help you create lots of beautiful music! +music. May it help you create lots of beautiful music! Han-Wen and Jan Utrecht/Eindhoven, The Netherlands, July 2002. -