Thank you for
the tips. I tried out jEdit with LilypondTool and found that to be very
helpful. The manual also helped. Thanks for your advice.
Regards,
~Michael~
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On 1/15/2010 9:29 PM, Colin Campbell wrote:
Michael S.
Morales wrote:
My second question is will there ever be a
graphical version for Windows?
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Because Lilypond is based on text files as input to a very
sophisticated rendering engine, a GUI in the sense of "enter code and
see the final score instantly" is probably some distance in the future.
My toolkit of choice in Windows is the combination of jEdit
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit/files/jedit/4.3/jedit4.3install.exe/download>
and the LilypondTool
<http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?LilyPondTool> plugin, which
come pretty close. You still need to recompile the Lilypond code, but
having the source in one window and a .PDF preview open in another, is
pretty useful. The other feature I really like is that the .PDF is
linked back to the source, so you can click on a note in the score and
see where it came from in the code. As in all things creative, YMMV but
those two would be my recommendation of a place to start.
Don't forget to take a bit of time with the Learning Manual, too! It's
tempting just to dive right in, and certainly Mutopia has lots of
examples to get you thinking, but start out with the tutorial, then try
coding up a few smaller works, songs or hymns or the like, and soon
you'll be away to the races.
Colin
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