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Re: Expressive Notation Package (ENP)
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Joseph Wakeling |
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Re: Expressive Notation Package (ENP) |
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Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:06:48 +0200 |
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Graham Percival wrote:
> That's a rather large fail. "Sibelius Academy" is a university.
> http://www.siba.fi/en/
Mea culpa. :-)
> You might recall that Sibelius was a composer? A rather famous
> composer from Finland? In fact, some people might say "the *only*
> famous composer from Finland? (no offense intended to Fins)
> Scarce wonder that they named a university after him!
:-)
> The ENP format is based on lisp. It's much easier for a computer
> to parse and create those files than "normal" lilypond files
> (somebody could work in lilypond entirely in scheme, but
> formatting a score that way would be quite odd). There's a
> graphical front-end for ENP... if you wanted to write music in it
> manually, you'd use a mouse. But the main purpose of ENP is for
> constraint programming.
>
> Since the focus is computer-generated music, the notation quality
> isn't as good as lilypond's. But nobody is pitching ENP as a
> replacement for high-quality sheet music. It's a program for
> music notation, created from a real university, by real
> researchers, made available for free. They seem to have used a
> non-free version of lisp to create binaries, but it's not clear if
> you require those or whether you can just run the lisp directly.
>
>
> I appreciate your enthusiasm for lilypond, but ENP does not
> deserve your scorn.
Good to know. Thanks for the clarification.