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Comment by zimpenfish

8 hours ago

Obligatory posting of Tantacrul's hilariously vicious kicking of Sibelius[0]

"This really is one of the great examples of breaking all UI design principles and every UX design principle too. It's like a design bull in a musical china shop."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI

[0] They may have fixed things in the intervening 8 years, I'm not a composer, I don't know.

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somat  24 minutes ago

That was pretty great, Many times when someone does not like something they are unable to unable to articulate why. That video is a master class in how to critique a thing.

I couldn't compose my way out of a wet bag, but I wonder if at some level of complexity the job would be better served by a markup language? https://lilypond.org I know for complex documents, I start to really despise the word processor, Much better for my sanity to just write in the markup language in the first place, But that may just be me.