[LAU] Notation: The State of the Mess

David Baron d_baron at 012.net.il
Sun Sep 7 11:20:39 EDT 2008


On Sunday 07 September 2008 16:41:53 Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> 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...

Some great stuff here. Jedit may become a very good friend, even when not 
using lilypondtool (possibly its largest plugin!).

Installing a bunch of them right now!



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