It's been a long time, but yeah. I just checked it out again. To my eye, the output does not look nearly as good -- it's basically on par with the music authoring software I was trying to use in the late 90s...which is not really that great. Sure it gets notes on a page, but is it readable?
To be fair, TeX is not really intended for musical notation, so it's cool they managed to get that kind of output. But Lilypond is really designed to produce beautiful, readable scores.
I remember, in a previous life as a violinist, that certain scores were just really hard to read, or not beautiful, it really killed my motivation to play them. Even familiar favorites, if engraved poorly were just no fun to read off of inferior pages.
To be fair, TeX is not really intended for musical notation, so it's cool they managed to get that kind of output. But Lilypond is really designed to produce beautiful, readable scores.
I remember, in a previous life as a violinist, that certain scores were just really hard to read, or not beautiful, it really killed my motivation to play them. Even familiar favorites, if engraved poorly were just no fun to read off of inferior pages.