Klarinet Archive - Posting 000281.txt from 2006/09

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] my apologies
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:49:11 -0400

Stephen C. Moore wrote:
> It's too bad that the open source community STILL does not have good
> GUI-based music notation software. I would be interested in
> contributing to it, but I don't think I have the skills to start up
> such a daunting project myself...

It's true, although Lilypond (not GUI-based, but quite usable for many
things) has many attractive features and seems to have come on a great
deal over the last few years.

I was exceptionally impressed when, as an experiment, I entered a 7/10
time signature and it not only accepted it (while generating a warning
that it was nonstandard), but understood its logical and musical meaning.

This is a project well worth supporting, since it represents an attempt
to find a truly effective open and logical standard for encoding musical
notation on a computer. I see this as a prerequisite for a truly
effective GUI.

http://www.lilypond.org/

-- Joe

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