Re: who uses lilypond

[Ed Baskerville]

I'm fairly new to LilyPond, and brand-new to this list.

I'm a recent college graduate, programmer and cellist living in San 
Francisco, looking to somehow make myself financially solvent through 
some combination of Mac programming, freelance technical writing, and 
cello playing.

So far: a few simple arrangements to play at my cousin's wedding.

Just begun: a by-ear transcription of the Astor Piazzolla album The 
Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night, and subsequent arrangement for 
whatever combination of friends I can get together to play the thing. 
(If anybody knows where the sheet music might exist, I'm very eager to 
turn this into simply an arranging project. Anybody?)

Also: I might as well mention that I'm starting to the groundwork for a 
Mac OS X front end to LilyPond, which will probably bring me back here 
often over the next few months. I'm actually envisioning two programs: 
one that's just a previewer (a la TeXShop), and one that has graphical 
editing, MIDI input, etc. The first I'll probably GPL and ask for 
donations; the second I'll probably charge for.

And I might as well conduct my own informal survey on LilyPond apps for 
Mac OS X: (1) who would use a simple LilyPond previewer (little more 
than easy switching between syntax-colored code and PDF output); and 
(2) who is interested in a fairly simple graphical music editing 
program that uses LilyPond for final output?

--Ed Baskerville