On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> wrote:

I've been a reader on the list for a while, not a poster until now.
I am preparing to outfit a computer for songwriting in Linux.
I will be using the command line notation options, of which there are rather a few from Lillypond to muscript.

You might want to look at MUP for notation

http://www.arkkra.com/

I find it much easier than lilypond, but others disagree :) I also find it has been output.

As part of the writing process (as well as performance, but that isn't your question) I also use my MMA software to generate MIDI:

http://mellowood.ca/mma/index.html

Quite often I will generate MIDI from MUP and import that into MMA to check note conflicts and just to make sure things "sound" like I think they should.

Hope this helps,

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