el Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:43:40 -0400 Dave Phillips <dlphilp@xxxxxxxxxx> escribi?: > it seems that SCORE has several drawbacks: > > 1. It costs a fair chunk of dinero. > 2. It hasn't yet been proven to run under DOSemu. > 3. It's copy protected. > 4. No source code. i guess that makes it pretty much useless for most of us. in my case, reason number 1 is enough... > Today's goal: MusicTeX, maybe using Lyx (?) for a front-end. Anyone > here have any experience with MusicTeX or any member of its family ? hardly a peek many years ago, at a time when i knew about linux even less than now. i soon discarded it thinking that if i were to invest my time learning a text-based music notation program, i'd rather go for CMN. is it just my impression, or people here don't mention CMN much? i only tried it a bit, never wrote a complete score, but i still think i'd rather learn that that other programs i've seen. it's tightly integrated with CM/CLM, which is not only convenient for algorithmic composition, but also offers a tool to convert to and from other formats, like MIDI files or csound scores. it's true that i don't know well other notation packages for linux, but from the examples i've seen, most of them seem to be more appropriate for simpler notation, like classical music or popular songs. i'm not trying to notate anything ferneyhough-like, not even close, but the score can still get quite complex pretty soon... best, lj --
