On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Christopher Meredith
<address@hidden> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Martin Tarenskeen
> Hi,
>
> I lost the original thread, but there was a posting recently about someone
> dreaming about an iPad music/score app using Lilypond. But the way Apple
> thinks about publishing and licensing 3rd party software does not match very
> well with GNU open source ideas.
>
> In the abcusers mailing list there was an anouncement by someone who was
> developing a music app for Android for mobile devices using the ABC music
> notation.
>
> Which makes me think:
> Is Android probably a better way to go if someone ever wants to develop a
> lilypond application for mobile devices ?
One of the reasons I love LilyPond is that I can already notate music
on Android (or iPad) or anything that has a simple text editor. In my
case, since I use Dropbox and the Android Dropbox app, I can pull up
lp source files on my Nexus One, edit them, then ssh into my main box
with ConnectBot, render the source file, and the PDF is already ready
on Dropbox for viewing on the phone.
There are similar apps on the iPad, too, complete with Dropbox integration from plain text editing. I'm actually starting to use that on my iPad to jot down ideas.
Marc