[linux-audio-user] Finale for Linux

[Them]

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

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