[linux-audio-user] Note typesetting for Linux

[Immanuel Litzroth]

saraband <darwin886 at yahoo.ca> writes:

> --- Immanuel Litzroth <immanuell at enfocus.be> wrote: >
> Mikhail Ramendik <mr at ramendik.ru> writes:
>> 
>> > Hello,
>> 
>> > 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. 
>> Can you explain why and "alphabetic medium" is not
>> "right"?
>> 
>> > 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.
>> Can you explain how a musician thinks about a score,
>> and how this cannot be
>> expressed in alphabetic editor?
>> Immanuel
>> 
>>  I'm not sure I follow Mikhail's argument, but for
> the record, I am a working musician and I use PMW
> (Philip's Music Writer) - a typesetting programme
> similar to Lilypond.  I've tried many programmes, and
> I  find coding (particularly with PMW) to be far more
> intuitive and versatile than the pointy-clicky
> commercial programmes.  

I am a musician and a programmer and my experience is the same
as yours, but I was wondering if this was my experience as a programmer 
which made me prefer lilypond.
Immanuel