9 Jul
2004
9 Jul
'04
4:24 p.m.
Dear coleagues,
There are a lot o ftypeseeting programmes for music scores. please
check on g
oogle typesetting TEX programmes for music and you will find excellent archives of
programmes.
If you need more detailed help please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Vedran Vucic
saraband wrote:
--- Mikhail Ramendik <mr(a)ramendik.ru> wrote: >
Michal
Seta wrote:
it should exist in
>linux. It became a de facto standard because it
used to be the only
>decent quality consummer desktop music publishing
app. Just because
>most of linux users/developers come from Windows
background does not
>mean we should all go for the same kinds of
solutions. A lot of them
>are bad. I understand that users have certain
work habits so some
>middle ground needs be found... sometimes.
It's not about work habits for me.
I have not been interested in music editing at all
until I have married
a musician lady in early 2003. She never did
computer music editing too.
And she's the classical kind of musician, preferring
acoustic
instruments and such; for her the PC is an editing
and typesetting tool
for making scores she will play on a very real
piano.
With Finale, she is at ease with her existing
skills. She is trained to
think of the score and see the score! But wilh
Lilypond and such, she in
effect needs to learn *programming* - a very
different thing from what
classical musicians do.
Yours, Mikhail Ramendik
It is interesting because I subscribe to a classical
guitar newsgroup and, like Dubya, WYSIWYG vs. coding
notation programmes is a hot and divisive topic. I
wonder if there is some sort of brain lateralization
issue here (I'm left-handed for what it is worth).
What I have always found unsatisfactory about
pointy-clicky music notation programmes is that there
are far too many built-in formatting assumptions made
about your intended layout. I mostly notate classical
guitar music which is very dense and complex - often
there are three independent voices on one stave. For
me, coding is as close as you can get (except for a
copper engraving plate) to starting out with a blank
page and laying things out as you want. You are not
limited to a handful of choices from a drop down menu
or a dialog box.
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