On Wednesday 21 December 2005 11:34, Georg Rudolph wrote: > I. I. Ooisen wrote: > >i wonder, since noteedit depends on lilypond for printing, why don't > > the developers of noteedit just use lilypond as an external > > editor/printer so that any newbye would find it easy to print the > > score? > > > >of course, if it doesn't find lilypond, it can just say: "lilypond > > does not seem to be installed on this machine (or whatever)", and > > the newbye will simply try to install it (as i don't think it's > > sane to make lilypond a dependency of noteedit). > > > >until noteedit gets internal printing support, i am sure what i > > suggest is absolutely useful -- or please explain why not. > > > >(i very much wonder why the noteedit devs haven't already considered > > it. i guess it is trivial to implement.) > > Please don't be teaching, please. Details can be tricky in a grown up > project like this! > > As a surprise, this feature exactly is in the works, out in very few > weeks. And when you check in > http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/noteedit/trunk/ for example the file > ChangeLog, you see, there are people having fun with NoteEdit and > improving it in every direction. And we have there mailing lists, but > to get mentioned on lau is an honor :) > > Lilypond is a beautiful post processor. Abc and Musixtex represent > other tastes and senses for design, so we try to support all of them, > or none. > > After reading your other thread above, a few thoughts: The > installation and proper setup of sound components is still a > challenge. If you're a newbe, Debian, Mandriva, Suse, are relatively > save to go. You need a lot: alsa with midi, tse3, a soft synth, a > print processor, maybe realtime-lsm to get glitch free playback, > artsd be friendly, and so on. I'm used to run NoteEdit with timidity > on jack, (together with ardour when also recording with the > multiface) with realtime-lsm configured. The setup is still tricky, > needs more time to become standardized. Thanks all who are working on > this! What can be done already now is impressive. > > For me somehow Rosegarden never worked out of my Suse box, so this is > still on my list to try out and to compare against NoteEdit! Maybe I > didn't try hard enough, because J?rg and others wrote a program that > I just like and use now a lot. This seemed to have happend also the > other way around. > > If you want to help out, there are ways in every level, maybe just to > communicate, maybe bug reports. About the maturity of NoteEdit I'm > quite conservative, as a personal stance, sometimes shy to advertise > it to the wrong people. People will compare NoteEdit with commercial > notation software, and the overall experience on an arbitrary linux > box can still be irritating. The gap will narrow, as I see for the > new year :) > > Continue to enjoy NotEdit, thank you very much for the wish and for the good news. are you a contributor of noteedit? > Regards, > Georg __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
