César Penagos wrote: > > Dears Lilyponders: > I'm a very in-love user of Lilypond, actually I have installed the 2.9.26 > version. I'm attend to update my preferred music score program. > For many times i sow in the user archives, people asking for a graphical > interface. I thing there is a powerful reason. > When you are "copying" a score, no matter with the instruments, or > instrument > colors in your orchestral score. Every musician knows what instrument will > be > the most appropriate for the voice that is writing. As the case as the > composers that can try every instrument they want. > The very real problems comes when you want to arrange a piece; and you > need to > see the balance of the instrumentation in your score. Every body knows > that the > simple way is to assign the first and second voices to the violins I and > II, > the third or tenor voice to the violas and the basses to cellos and > contrabass. > It is Ok for very small arrange using the strings, but when you add > woods,and > winds you must be carefully what you are doing if don't want undesirable > result. > If you don't take care of the balance in the use of instruments your score > will > sound recharged, very dense. > For this reason you have to be alert whit your instrumentation, and I hope > that > in the very close future some of the very smart people in Lilypond team > takes > the time to construct an a graphical interface for your great program. > When this happens Finale, Sibelius etc, etc, etc. Will have to close their > companies, because nobody will buy their expensiveness programs. > I don't know if is the nature of the program that can't permit an > interface, > but I'm taking the voice of all the people that really needs an interface > to > properly works in a score. > An example would be the ABCedit editor from Prof.Coolgeem, is very nice > and > usable > Please!! consider this. > > Cheer's > > César Penagos. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >
I like the non GUI interface and find that I get greater consistency across many songs due to a templated approach, as opposed to re-working each song individually on a screen. BUT I think many smaller GUI based "helper applications" would be nice, whereby small GUI screens can pop up to aid you in doing more complicated tweaks, then just output a snipped of lily source to the clipboard so you can paste it into your score. Kind of like a "plug ins" approach, where the GUI main application just hosts hundreds of helper plug ins that surround a fine tabbed lily text editor that also has lily/scheme syntax hilighting. I would think this is a better way to start a GUI project as opposed to trying to duplicate another "Finale", (I also find the Finale UI to be difficult). I think in the very long run, lily should provide a dedicated text editor with a standardized plug in API that programmers can use to develop GUI helper plug-ins in ANY language they code in, then new end-users just minimally download the lily text editor and later decide what GUI plug ins they need or want to bother with. This approach also bridges the gap between a user base wishing to stay text-based and a new user base wanting to go GUI. But overall I am happy to see the development resources going into the current approach, and would hate to see a GUI dev thrust steal development resources from advancing "core" lily. (just my 2 cents :) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/The-importance-of-a-graphical-interface.-tf2528866.html#a7098108 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user