Re: frescobaldi vs. org-babel-lilypond

[Urs Liska]

Am 27.04.2014 20:15, schrieb Steven Arntson:
> I may be getting in over my head with this question. I'm a new user of Lilypond,
> transitioning away from Musescore. I've
> been using Frescobaldi a bit, and am impressed with it so far.
>
> However, I see there's an Emacs mode available through org-babel called
> "Arrange Mode". I'm a user of Emacs (though far from an expert!), and I
> love the environment.
>
> Does anyone have familiarity with both, who could highlight a few of the
> differences? Frescobaldi has many features I doubt I'll use much (such
> as the Quick Insert menu). Mainly what I like about it is the
> integration of the windows--text entry, music display, lilypond
> messages, and MIDI playback. I wonder if that could be done with a
> dedicated Emacs instance.

I don't know the Emacs mode so I won't make a recommendation (which 
would be very much biased as I'm a heavy Frescobaldi user).

But what I think could be an interesting aspect for you is: If you're 
already an Emacs user you might be able to integrate LilyPond work well 
with your existing toolchains with that.

> I think I'm right that one can transpose scores in Frescobaldi? And
> maybe not in Arrange Mode. That could be a deciding factor.

I'm not completely sure what your use case is here. But in general you 
wouldn't use your editor to transpose a score as a whole (i.e. change 
all the pitches in the input file). If you want to do that you'd usually 
let LilyPond do the work for you.

HTH
Urs

> Thank you!
> Steven Arntson
>
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