Re: Help for paper about LilyPond and WYSIWYM sofware

[Jonathan Kulp]

MonAmiPierrot wrote:
> Valentin Villenave wrote:
> > I assume you already know about Andrew's paper:
> > http://www.musicbyandrew.ca/finale-lilypond-1.html
>
> Yep, and very useful! Anything more?
> Thanks and regards

I haven't written any papers on this topic but wanted to be in touch 
with you anyway.  My Ph.D. is in musicology and I have no formal 
training in computers, though I have to say that my computer skills have 
improved dramatically in the 18 months that I have been using Linux and 
Lilypond.

I'm nearly finished writing a counterpoint workbook with Lilypond Book 
in LaTeX and Lilypond, and am also working on a new project with 
Lilypond, which is a free anthology of musical scores for use in 
undergraduate music history courses.  This will be a combination of new 
Lilypond engravings and public-domain scanned pdf files of old 
printings.  This is in the very early stages.

I'm not sure if I can contribute to the argument for Lilypond over the 
proprietary engraving software, but in my Counterpoint workbook I have a 
colophon page where I discuss Lilypond and LaTeX briefly.  One of the 
features of LaTeX that I point out there that might be of interest to 
musicologists is the fact that with LaTeX you can place sharp, flat, and 
natural symbols in the text without messing up line spacing, something 
I've found impossible to do with word processors.  It's also easier to 
do scale-degree indications, you know the numbers with ^ on top of them.

Please report back when you get back from giving the paper. :)

Jon

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