[LAU] Notation: The State of the Mess

[Grammostola Rosea]

Atte André Jensen wrote:
> David Baron wrote:
>   
>> Very little has progressed since the last thread here.
>>     
>
> A sidestep:
>
> Has anyone been able to run sibelius under linux? If so, what steps did 
> you have to follow?
>
>   
sudo aptitude install musescore lilypond nted rosegarden where my steps 
i did follow...

;)

No experience with Sibelius on linux. I only worked for a while with 
Finale wine.

But I didn't use finale much on linux. I'm learning now Lilypond with 
the help of some useful tools e.g. lilykde (excellent templates and 
fast) and lilypondtool (great debugger and a lot of options) 
http://code.google.com/p/lilykde/
http://lilypondtool.organum.hu/

and till now I can do everything I want, also with help of the lilypond 
user mailinglist....

If you can work with lilypond, you can use the Notation editors (nted, 
rosegarden, musescore, denemo or noteedit) to work with a gui, and if 
needed you can improve the score (adding chord symbols for example) by 
hand. What I try to say, learn lilypond and you don't 'suffer' much if 
an notation editor lacks a feature you need...