Hello, Them wrote: > Don't count on it happening. And you don't need it on Linux anyway. > > I think Rosegarden or NoteEdit are good contenders, and don't cost you > $500.00. And Rosegarden works with JACK and LADSPA plugins, whereas > Finale does not. And Finale can't do LilyPond. Finale's PostScript > output option is a piece of junk, IMHO. But. I could not get what I need in the way of note entry and pronting, from either NoteEdit or RoseGarden. Last time I checked, NoteEdit could not even wrap lines on the screen, and RoseGarden didn't even have repeat bars. I understand these particular problems may get fixed. But Finale's very concept, as a primarily note editing-and-typesetting tool with some sort of WYSIWYG, is umnatched on Linux; for both NoteEdit and RoseGarden, this sort of use is not the main idea of the author, and this leads to all sorts of missing features. Any sort of alphabetic medium for typesetting notes is about as "right" for a professional musician as it would be "right" for a programmer to somehow write programs in the language of musical score. So Lilyopnd is simply off track. It might be good for people working for publishers and typing notes in from existing drafts; but even they might want a visual tool instead. The success of TeX for formula editing came, I think, from the fact that TeX somehow matches the way a scientist *thinks* about a formula. But IMHO, neither Lilypond nor any other alphabetic editor can approach the way a musician thinks about score! And that's why this won't work. I'm not saying Finale is perfect. And perhaps having a Linux version is not the best solution. Perhaps the best solution is developing an open source Linux visual score editing-and-typesetting suite. It might even become better than Finale because, for example, of a good plugin structure. However, I'm not a programmer, only a technical writer and a husband of a professional musician; I can write a spec, subscribe to LAD and start discussing it, but I can't write the code! Last time I tried the idea here; the general answer was "RG will be up to the task soon". But now, perhaps there are coders who would be willing to join a project for a dedicated note typesetting/editing tool? I can make a spec and join in a discussion, if there's any hope of implementing it. Yours, Mikhail Ramendik
