Klarinet Archive - Posting 000282.txt from 2006/09

From: "Stephen C. Moore" <stephen.c.moore@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] my apologies
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:57:01 -0400

I have played around with Lilypond and have found it to be chock full
of features and capable of producing beautiful scores. However, it is
not what you'd call user friendly. There have been several attempts
at making front ends for Lilypond (the one that comes to mind is
MusicTex) but they are not interactive in the way Finale or Sibelius
are. Since lilypond really only takes data and compiles it into a
score, I'm not sure if this environment is convenient for score
playback, live experimentation, etc.

On 9/25/06, Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net> wrote:
> 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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