reed wrote: > Please Brett... Let Midi and Postscript away for a moment... Did you > ever made a copy or a change score for playing that can be a little > similar to the original from Schott, Henle, BMG, Suvini Zerboni, or > other printed score? > > I desire an open source tool, really!! > > But for the moment, googling scores edited by lilypond, I'ven't found > anything really good... and a lot of time to typesetting it... > > Sometime I have to change details in some scores and send it to my > friend: with finale I do it in few minute... Most of professional > instrument players don't need any MIDI playback... they know very > well how the score plays.. Have you tried running Finale under Wine? It seems to work fairly well: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=454&versionId=1772 -- Rule of Feline Frustration: When your cat has fallen asleep on your lap and looks utterly content and adorable, you will suddenly have to go to the bathroom.