[slightly OT] Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-09 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 02:35:21PM -0700, Hans Forbrich wrote: I personally think many people go about the evaluation totally backwards. They first ask 'how easy is it to get started'. Well, that seems to be symptomatic for most software today, even in professional software development

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-08 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Thu, 8 Apr 2004 00:41:18 +0200, Erik a dit : Is there at all any list of links to lilypond-related software anywhere? There are lots of lilypond related things Out There, which new users should be aware of (such as editors with special lilypond modes, helper scripts, other music

Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Michael Edwards
Hallo, everyone - I'm new here. I'm not a member of the list - at least not yet. So I'm not even sure if this will get through, and whether I will be able to read any response on the web site archives. (If not, I guess I'll have to join, then submit this message again.) I'm

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread David Bobroff
At 11:58 PM 4/7/2004 +1000, you wrote: In general, each of the programs I named above seems to have problems for me, at least insofar as I have gleaned information about how they work (since I do not have copies of any of them, and have tried only demo versions of older versions of Finale and

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, Michael! because I have hard disk space problems and this is a very active list Don't forget the archives (searchable!) and digest mode... =) Finale: User interface seems awkward and difficult, not sufficiently keyboard-based. Oh, I got pretty good with the keyboard (even did a fair bit

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Kieren Richard MacMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3. If I adopt any music notation program, it will be used on a laptop computer, with its lack of a separate numeric keypad. Again, text editor says it all. In general, how configurable is LilyPond for different methods of usage? Pretty

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Michael Welsh Duggan
Michael Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hallo, everyone - I'm new here. Welcome. I'm not a member of the list - at least not yet. So I'm not even sure if this will get through, and whether I will be able to read any response on the web site archives. (If not, I guess I'll

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Aaron
Wait a second, truthfully all the applications are pretty much notation programs, not composition programs. Lilypond is music engraving with all the bells and whistles minus the graphical interface. It takes some getting used to and could be a bit difficult for a novice to use if the notation

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Hans Forbrich
I personally think many people go about the evaluation totally backwards. They first ask 'how easy is it to get started'. Unfortunately once the honeymoon is over, then it's time to get serious and accomplish some real tasks. Every 'easy to use' package I've seen quickly grinds to a halt.

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Paul Scott
Ferenc Wagner wrote: Don't forget about the quick-note-insert mode (lyqi) in Emacs. It provides a good bunch of things, can even transpose and relativise parts. I had never heard of this before. I just looked and don't know where to find it in the manual. Is it there? I did find it with

Re: lyqi (was: Basic questions about LilyPond.)

2004-04-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't forget about the quick-note-insert mode (lyqi) in Emacs. It provides a good bunch of things, can even transpose and relativise parts. I had never heard of this before. I just looked and don't know where to find it in the manual. Is it there?

Re: Basic questions about LilyPond.

2004-04-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 23.58, Paul Scott wrote: Ferenc Wagner wrote: Don't forget about the quick-note-insert mode (lyqi) in Emacs. It provides a good bunch of things, can even transpose and relativise parts. I had never heard of this before. I just looked and don't know where to find