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-It must have been during a rehearsal of the EJE (Eindhoven Youth
-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 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
-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 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 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!
-
-Han-Wen and Jan
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-Utrecht/Eindhoven, The Netherlands, July 2002.
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