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/