Dear coleagues, There are a lot o ftypeseeting programmes for music scores. please check on g oogle typesetting TEX programmes for music and you will find excellent archives of programmes. If you need more detailed help please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Vedran Vucic saraband wrote: >--- Mikhail Ramendik <mr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Michal >Seta wrote: > >>> >>> >>it should exist in >> >> >>>linux. It became a de facto standard because it >>> >>> >>used to be the only >> >> >>>decent quality consummer desktop music publishing >>> >>> >>app. Just because >> >> >>>most of linux users/developers come from Windows >>> >>> >>background does not >> >> >>>mean we should all go for the same kinds of >>> >>> >>solutions. A lot of them >> >> >>>are bad. I understand that users have certain >>> >>> >>work habits so some >> >> >>>middle ground needs be found... sometimes. >>> >>> >>It's not about work habits for me. >> >>I have not been interested in music editing at all >>until I have married >>a musician lady in early 2003. She never did >>computer music editing too. >>And she's the classical kind of musician, preferring >>acoustic >>instruments and such; for her the PC is an editing >>and typesetting tool >>for making scores she will play on a very real >>piano. >> >>With Finale, she is at ease with her existing >>skills. She is trained to >>think of the score and see the score! But wilh >>Lilypond and such, she in >>effect needs to learn *programming* - a very >>different thing from what >>classical musicians do. >> >>Yours, Mikhail Ramendik >> >> >> >> >> >It is interesting because I subscribe to a classical >guitar newsgroup and, like Dubya, WYSIWYG vs. coding >notation programmes is a hot and divisive topic. I >wonder if there is some sort of brain lateralization >issue here (I'm left-handed for what it is worth). > >What I have always found unsatisfactory about >pointy-clicky music notation programmes is that there >are far too many built-in formatting assumptions made >about your intended layout. I mostly notate classical >guitar music which is very dense and complex - often >there are three independent voices on one stave. For >me, coding is as close as you can get (except for a >copper engraving plate) to starting out with a blank >page and laying things out as you want. You are not >limited to a handful of choices from a drop down menu >or a dialog box. > > > >______________________________________________________________________ >Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > > >
