Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux soundapps pages updated

Dave Phillips writes: Hi Dave, Every once in a while, I check our listing at http://linux-sound.org/notation.html in the hope that you found the time to update the LilyPond entry with musings on how it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Now I know that notation is not the most central and sexy thing in Linux Sound, and maybe I'm not entirely unbiased, but I have the feeling that the LilyPond entry is a bit off balance, when compared with ABC, or MusiXTeX? # ABC * ABC is "...a language designed to notate tunes in an ascii format" (This page is the main resource for abc-related packages) * ABC Plus Project many enhancements from Guido Gonzato, including his abcpp (abc preprocessor) and JedABC (abc file editor) * Jef's ABC page Jean-François Moine's wonderful extension software, includes abc2mps (abc files to Postscript) and tclabc (Tcl/Tk interface for abc files) * Skink nice front-end for abc, requires Java * abcMIDI renders abc score to MIDI file # LilyPond music typesetter, outputs TeX and MIDI # MusiXTeX full-featured music typesetting via TeX (This page is also the main resource for other TeX-related notation packages) That saddens me a bit, because your pages is still where a Linux user would look for a notation program. I don't think a new user would even consider looking at LilyPond, where IMNSH(but biassed)O, she should. Greetings, Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke(a)gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org