Re: [LAU] Notation formats

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simon Williams wrote: | Werner Schweer wrote: |> IMHO the best is MusicXML; look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML. |> Its in activ development and supported by many commercial and open source |> programs (MuseScore) | | Julien Claassen wrote: |> I think with lilypond you wouldn't go wrong. You can convert it to MIDI (to |> an extend) and you can make sheet music of it. |> For ABC: I know you can convert it to MIDI, I don't know about sheet music |> and human-readability. |> For Lilypond I believe there are also graphical editors making it easier |> for you. But don't nail me on this. :-) | | So it's down to Lilypond vs MusicXML. I think I prefer MusicXML as a | format, but the main thing now is a good editor and viewer for it. | You know, part of it depends on what you are doing. You might think about all of them for different things. For example, I need to keep track of a lot of fiddle tunes. I have tried lilypond for that, but abc is good enough and much simpler. Your file manager or make should know how to create a pdf from whatever format you choose. You could try Quanta for editing MusicXML. It's not a music editor, but it's a generic XML editor, which seems more like what you will want anyway.