On Friday 20 November 2009 10:48:11 CLIVE CATTERALL wrote: > Just a quick music typesetting question... > > Pierre, do you use a GUI front end for Lilypond? Four or five years ago I > sweated entering some motets by Victoria and got so fed up with the > lilypond punctuation, incomprehensible parsing messages, difficulties > lining up syllables/melisma etc. that I went back to pencil and manuscript > paper. I liked the output of Lilypond. Good typesetting does make > sightreading easier, especially for older singers/players. You can read the > note groups by "words" rather than by "letters". > > But ... > > I'm not a software engineer - I hate keeping track of nested blocks, angled > brackets etc. - and the lilypond developers are well known for their > dislike of GUIs. I see that good things have been done more recently with > third party software that produces .ly output. Do you have experience of > any front-ends? > > > Clive
Perhaps not your cup of tea, but I like the shareware program Mup. Yes you have to code the notes but if you can use your text editor effectively you can create a score with surprising speed. Mup will also produce midi form the same file, transpose etc. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
