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@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 can't do are challenging. After the initial excitement,
-you have to practice and practice. Scales and studies can be dull, and
-if you aren't 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's wonderful, and on some days it just doesn't work, but you keep
+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 use it to 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.
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