Wim van Dommelen <m...@wimvd.nl> writes: > Commends on the user-interface: > > Some time ago I tried to get Frescobaldi running, but didn't > succeed. Too much dependencies and version conflicts and requests for > some versions which are explicitly requested but don't exist > anymore. However, it works on my Ubuntu-machine from the box and I > would love to run it on the Mac also.
The Download page states For Mac OS X: Work is being done to create a more complete installer. You probably already saw that; I just include it to get other commentors up to date. > My recommendation: On my Mac I do use TeXShop. It is only one small > file to integrate these two. Each Lilypond-file can be set separatedly > or with a standard Unix first-line (actually two lines: > %!TEX TS-program = Lilypond > %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode > ) which TeXShop recognizes and acts upon. These are in my standard > files from which I start. Syntax is highlighted, lines are numbered > for error-reporting, etc. Emacs would also be reasonably easy to install (you install Emacs and then the lilypond-mode), but for one thing, people tend to shy away from Emacs, for another LilyPond-mode, while supporting point&click, is not as elaborate an Emacs mode as AUCTeX is for LaTeX. > P.S.: When I show the results to fellow musicians really everybody > likes it. But nobody wants to type text, most of them shun away from > typing a command like "\appoggiatura" (two p's, two g's!). They don't > know what they are missing. ap = #appoggiatura > That "command-line fear" as I call it will still be the biggest hurdle > in wider acceptance. I have referred some people for example to Scorio > recently, to try. But people are so afraid it will not be supported by > MShit MS does not support music in any form. And Scorio has MusicXML export if I remember correctly. > that they condemm themselves to MShit completly in the first > place. (Sorry, this remark just barfed up :-) > P.P.S.: Small anecdote (and then I'll stop, promised): I was on a > Barok music week last year and halfway the week something turned out > to be wrong in the scores: wrong piece selected, not the right level > for the attendees. We found out after three days and the instructor > was lossed and wanted to cancel our ensemble (9 persons, no pro's > except the instructor). In and after a discussion he showed me some > IMSLP score (in a standard C transposition) he would like to > do. Downloaded and printed locally, some of the instruments were > transposing (the clarinet family) so he was really stuck. Reading and > transposing live was not an option for the participants. I borrow his > printed score (8 pages, 4 instruments, 2 to transpose), borrowed a > laptop for two hours from somebody else, used Notepad to type my music > notes, saved it on my USB stick. After dinner and some other things I > drove home (30 minutes), started my Mac, took a standard file for all > the headings, changed title and composer. Imported the notes from my > USB stick, corrected two typos and 10 minutes later just before > midnight my printer woke up. Next day we rehearsed and played > it. That's flexibility I like. Now we just need OCR software to shave off 2 hours of typing and add half an hour of proofreading. I am also not convinced that using my Midi-augmented accordion in the process could not speed up the typing significantly _if_ I had appropriate programs tailored for speed note entry. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user