Klarinet Archive - Posting 000093.txt from 2005/07

From: Tom Flavel <tom@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] don't bother reinstalling windows. Its time to switch to linux
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:46:55 -0400

On 07/07/2005 13:20:41, Karl Krelove wrote:
> Since you've brought it up - the one thing that's kept me from switching
> completely to Linux is the lack of a real Linux/Unix equivalent of
> Finale or Sibelius. I have Linux running on a second machine right next
> to the Windows one and it's installed as a dual boot on two other
> computers I use, but until I can replace Finale or Sibelius with
> something equally powerful and *convenient* I can't ditch Windows. Any
> suggestions?

If you just want to typeset (beautiful) music, lilypond produces
absolutley the best quality output of any system I've found - and it
runs on windows, too. I don't know about interactive composition,
though.

http://www.lilypond.org/web/switch/

--
Tom

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