Klarinet Archive - Posting 000560.txt from 2005/03

From: "James Fay" <fay.james@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] music notation software (rather OT)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:22:20 -0500

Lilypond (www.lilypond.org) is music notation (more like engraving) =
software
that is based on LaTeX.

Cygwin is a linux derivative that runs inside windows, and can use =
Lilypond.

Jim Fay

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]=20
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 5:11 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] music notation software (rather OT)

Anne Bell wrote:

> My brother used TeX or some derivative (I don't know why I think it=20
> was something like LaTex...just being punny probably....) to typeset=20
> his Thesis and suggested I look into MusiXTex.

It almost certainly was LaTeX. LaTeX is a set of TeX macros that make=20
TeX more intuitive and user-friendly, and is used widely for typesetting =

academic material (particularly science papers). Currently I'm writing=20
my own thesis with it... ;-)

(By the way, TeX is pronounced "tech"---tau, epsilon, chi;-)

I did check out MusiXTeX one time---actually I think this is just one of =

several variants of TeX-based music typesetting macros. I didn't get=20
very far with it as it is *very* far from user-friendly; I think you=20
would need to be a pretty good "TeXpert" to get much out of it. For=20
someone like me who is only used to LaTeX and does not have much=20
expertise in the nuts and bolts of TeX itself (which are much more=20
complicated and which LaTeX exists to gloss over), it was pretty=20
difficult to get into.

I do remember hearing that there exists an open-source WYSIWYG program=20
which bases itself on TeX, but it may only be available for Linux.

-- Joe

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