[LAU] Write down music for practicing?

[M Watts]

On 10/21/2010 05:25 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:

> I second Lilypond the output is just so beautiful!
> What I usually do (as I like to se a score) is use Rosegarden, export to
> Lilypond and do some "hand" tweaks to the Lilypond source.
>

You'll get many votes for LilyPond -- rightly so!

Frescobaldi is a KDE-based IDE for LilyPond
http://www.frescobaldi.org/

There's also LilyPondTool for jEdit (requires Java)
http://lilypondtool.organum.hu/


For wysiwig editing, try MuseScore
http://musescore.org/

For chords & lyric-type song sheets, try Chordii
http://www.vromans.org/johan/projects/Chordii/