Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Rick Hansen (aka RickH)
o go GUI. But overall I am happy to see the development resources going into the current approach, and would hate to see a GUI dev thrust steal development resources from advancing "core" lily. (just my 2 cents :) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/The-importance-of-a-gr

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Valentin Villenave
Well as far as I know Windows Lilypond users are still missing the cute TortoiseSVN-like menu icons... ...maybe it could help... :) But that said, the work that has been done on MacOSX Lilypond.app is extremely valuable (even icon-wise...). I know there are plans to do the same with the Windows

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Erik Sandberg wrote: Subversion has a nice solution to this problem, through tortoisesvn, which works as a plugin for windows explorer: By right-clicking on a directory, you can access a menu through which you can perform all common subversion tasks. Would it be useful to create a similar l

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:41, Tomas Valusek wrote: > Hello, > > it would be nice to be able to correct some things using mouse (most > notably, slur shapes, system distances, markup positioning etc.) Shaping > slurs using mouse is quite easy, but doing the same in .ly file is quite > cumbersom

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-31 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:19, Valentin Villenave wrote: > Hello César ; > > Just a few words. > > As a matter of fact, I've switched to linux in the mean time I've > switched to Lilypond... But we can't ask everyone to do so, and > therefore I agree it indeed lacks a decent user interface ; es

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you have seen the section on "Writing music in parallel" in the manual. Regarding the division between people who think melodically versus harmonically, I've always thought that it depends mostly on what instrument you play. If you play the piano or some other instrument where it's easy to

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello Trevor, I thank you for your contribution ; of course here we need a detailed scientific study and we can't write a general, narrow-minded theory of music history. However, the american "chord-based thinking" you focus on could be an excellent way to approach English/American music writing

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-29 Thread Trevor Bača
Warning: off-topic :-) I think that Valentin's comment here is particularly interesting: -You've got to think very _VERY_ horizontally, and not vertically like in Sibelius or Finale. This has been the major difficulty to me. But if you think about it, you'll realize that it helps you indeed by

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
Hello César ; Just a few words. I'm using the jEdit editor with the Lilypondtool plugin, which gives the ability to compile, preview and even play your score with simple shortcuts (a bit like the lilypond mac version) ; it is quite useable and very convenient to learn. I've tried denemo ; it's

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-28 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you have seen the question on graphical user interfaces at http://lilypond.org/web/about/faq /Mats Quoting César Penagos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Dears Lilyponders: I'm a very in-love user of Lilypond, actually I have installed the 2.9.26 version. I'm attend to update my preferred music s

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-28 Thread Tomas Valusek
Hello, it would be nice to be able to correct some things using mouse (most notably, slur shapes, system distances, markup positioning etc.) Shaping slurs using mouse is quite easy, but doing the same in .ly file is quite cumbersome. Tomas Valusek Bertalan Fodor napsal(a): Actually I regard

Re: The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-28 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Actually I regard LilyPond as an engraving and not a compositing tool. So for my compositions and arrangements I use paper and pencil, a MIDI keyboard and a sequencer, but when I want a written copy, I transcribe it. However, for copying it would really useful to have a graphical interface (it

The importance of a graphical interface.

2006-10-28 Thread César Penagos
Dears Lilyponders: I'm a very in-love user of Lilypond, actually I have installed the 2.9.26 version. I'm attend to update my preferred music score program. For many times i sow in the user archives, people asking for a graphical interface. I thing there is a powerful reason. When you are "copyi