Klarinet Archive - Posting 000582.txt from 2005/03

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] music notation software (rather OT)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:00:00 -0500

James Fay wrote:

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

Someone mentioned Lilypond a while earlier. Is it really LaTeX-based or
just TeX-based? The difference could be important since TeX is a good
deal fussier and less intuitive to deal with.

Actually from a brief look at the stuff on the web it looks like what
lilypond really does is take a file which contains just the music (in
its text-input format), then converts it to a .tex file, and then calls
Cygwin's tex/latex programs to process the result.

Cygwin is a nifty piece of kit which I use mainly for the Linux graphics
programmes (XFig and XMGrace). It's just a pity it can't run Linux
applications from a remote machine as one can with real Linux... :-(
One of these days I will get a "virtual machine" installed on my system
which I can run Linux inside, but for the moment there is no real urgency.

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