Graham Percival wrote: > That's a rather large fail. "Sibelius Academy" is a university. > http://www.siba.fi/en/
Mea culpa. :-) > You might recall that Sibelius was a composer? A rather famous > composer from Finland? In fact, some people might say "the *only* > famous composer from Finland? (no offense intended to Fins) > Scarce wonder that they named a university after him! :-) > The ENP format is based on lisp. It's much easier for a computer > to parse and create those files than "normal" lilypond files > (somebody could work in lilypond entirely in scheme, but > formatting a score that way would be quite odd). There's a > graphical front-end for ENP... if you wanted to write music in it > manually, you'd use a mouse. But the main purpose of ENP is for > constraint programming. > > Since the focus is computer-generated music, the notation quality > isn't as good as lilypond's. But nobody is pitching ENP as a > replacement for high-quality sheet music. It's a program for > music notation, created from a real university, by real > researchers, made available for free. They seem to have used a > non-free version of lisp to create binaries, but it's not clear if > you require those or whether you can just run the lisp directly. > > > I appreciate your enthusiasm for lilypond, but ENP does not > deserve your scorn. Good to know. Thanks for the clarification. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
