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Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages


From: Johan Vromans
Subject: Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:18:13 +0200

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:00:06 +0200
Peter Bjuhr <address@hidden> wrote:

> I send in this reminder not because I'm especially interested in ages, 
> but it would be interesting to know more about stuff like editor usage 
> and if LilyPond is used for original compositions or for engraving 
> existing compositions.

I'm 62, retired ICT specialist and musician (guitar).

I've always been attracted to typesetting in general, and typesetting music
in particular. I've been using LilyPond even before its very first
inception, while working with M-Tx, MusicTeX, MusixTeX in the early 90's. I
must admit I used many tools in those days, like ABC and Chord/ChordPro. I
wrote my own 'music compilers' (in Modula-2 and C) with backends for MIDI,
a Casio keyboard, and MusixTeX.

For music typesetting I now exclusively use LilyPond, Emacs, and
FrecsoBaldi, with help of a collection of home-grown Perl tools.

Most of the time I cooperate with a friend of mine who is
composer/arranger. She delivers Sibelius-generated MusicXML which I turn
into raw LilyPond using musescore, and then redesign it to produce single-
and multipart scores, and MIDI music from the individual parts for singer to
practice with.

Other music-related tools I often use: MuseScore, Denemo, ImproVisor, MMA,
RoseGarden, TiMidity, iRealPro, ChordBot, MobileSheetsPro. I revived the old
Chord program under the name Chordii and I maintain the ChordPro standard
(FWIW).

Attached is a picture of one of the very first LilyPond meetings.

-- Johan

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