On Wednesday 16 January 2008, James Stone wrote: Lilypond is the standard and many scoring programs export files for this. The markup can be manually inserted or edited using "lied" (truthfully). Denemo promises a WYSIWYG feeder to Lilypond. Not ready to play. Musescore (mscore) is a WYSIWYG scoring program and does the typesetting (for music, we call this engraving) as well without Lilypond. This is a very nice up-and-coming program but is not stable enough to enter a whole song from scratch. Will be a Linux-Sibelius when the kinks are out! Nted (a successor to noteedit--I have not tried the latest upgrade, but the previous one) is not ready to play. Canorus (another successor to noteedit--make up your minds, folks) is also not ready to play. Noteedit (no longer being developed) will get the job done allbeit with a fairly awkward interface for many functions. It will export to abc, lilypond, musicXML, musixTeX, etc. and will print via lilypond directly. Rosegarden (one fairly complete linux DAW) also does scoring, supposedly well, but I find it too difficult to use. So ... I still use noteedit-->lilypond or noteedit->musicXML->mscore So I use no