Re: Which frontend?

[Eyolf Ostrem]

On Tue 02 May 2006 08:31, Bertalan Fodor wrote:
> 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.

I'm sorry if I have offended anyone. I certainly didn't mean to be negative 
about the program, just to point out that (1) it didn't work for me, because 
of all the java errors I got. As I said, this may not be the fault of 
Lilypond-mode, but as long as all the nice functions don't work, all I have 
is a 15 Mb download... - especially since (2) I've found a tool that works 
perfectly to my satisfaction in emacs/lilypond-mode. This is not to say that 
other equivalent tools are bad. I did notice the features you mention, and 
found them very useful, especially the macro/template function, and the error 
report (although most of the errors I make are 'typos' - writing a wrong note 
value here and there - which a syntactical error checker will not find).
But a lyqi-mode - if you can implement that, that would be a great step 
forward. (and to continue my previous parenthesis: a great enhancement to the 
lyqi-mode, or a lyqi-like (lookalike?) mode, would be to have a note 
following a dotted note automatically set to the next shorter value (e2. > 
f4) unless it's the basic time unit (in 3/4: e2. > f2.). )

I promise that I'll have another go at jEdit whenever a new version of java 
comes out for my distro :-)

Eyolf


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