Re: [linux-audio-user] Note typesetting for Linux

Well, I must be a different race of a classical musician. I have been trained as a classical musician and I've been trained to read the black dots with beams people call scores. However, a score is only a representation of music. The same music could be represented in different ways. As a guitarist I have learnt to play from a guitar score, piano score, lead sheet, modern guitar tablature and medieval/rennaissance tablature (of which there were 2 kinds). These are all valid representations of musical compositions and they all have strengths and weaknesses. Any piece of music (as long as it's within the traditional 12 tone equal temperament) can be represented using any of the above methods. So why not text? Entering textual representation of music and following certain _markup_ rules is not programming. If it were so, simply scoring should be considered programming, too.