Re: Which frontend?

[Bertalan Fodor]

Well, I'm a bit disappointed about what you said about the 
jEdit+LilyPondTool set.
- I can confirm that setting up everything may be more than just to 
apt-get something. However, as far as I see you may get LilyPondTool 
running by just downloading Java, jEdit and making three clicks with 
your mouse in jEdit. Perhaps you also need to configure some properties, 
but that's quite natural.
- We don't have a lyqi-mode yet, that's true. We'd like to do one, but 
didn't have the time yet, so it's half-made.

However, LilyPondTool is created for some very important purpose, and 
some unique features:
- code completion - if you like browsing the documentation all the way 
to find out the exact name and syntax of properties and commands, or you 
can remember everything you need, don't use it
- score setup wizard with customizable templates - if you can easily 
read and remember the structure of a LilyPond file, and you can find and 
modify an appropriate lilypond file faster and easier than visually 
setting up the score and selecting its properties, and then don't use it
- lilypond documentation in indexed full-text searchable help - if you 
like browsing some 10MB HTML files instead of just entering some 
keywords and quickly browse through the hits, then don't use it
- instant error report - if you never make any mistakes, and you always 
close your braces and beams and slurs, then don't use it
- automatic hyphenation of lyrics - if you write lyrics, but you find it 
easier to manually hyphenate it, instead of leaving it to the OpenOffice 
hyphenation dictionaries, and just making some corrections (which are 
needed because text hyphenation is not the same as lyrics), don't use it
- macros and templates for many LilyPond constructs and it's easy to 
create new ones - repeats, articulations applied to note blocks, text 
markups, general tweaks

I must admit that we have some not-working features, but have much more 
working features than emacs has. And (besides lyqi) we have all features 
working that emacs has.

Bert