Well, we are speaking here of Gregorio, not Lilypond. Gregorio is extremely simple : you can read the doc of the language : it is a few pages. Gregorio is more limited and more simple than Lilypond, but does well what we ask it : Gregorian scores. It is extremely efficient : you write scores very quickly.
And yes, it is a language, you must read the doc and understand it. Music people know languages : a score is a language. You must learn the language, you need well a couple of hours for that... So if you have less than a page to write, keep the pencil and the manuscript. Else read the doc and use Gregorio. And there are no complex brackets : if you are able to read a normal score, you are able to create it with Gregorio. For the question of GUI, yes, there is a graphic environment : Scribus. With Scribus, Gregorio is in a graphic environment exactly at the same level as LaTeX or Lilypond in Scribus. But there no other GUI available, even if some are in project. Pierre CLIVE CATTERALL a ?crit : > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
