Re: Best support programs for Lilypond

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2016, Richard Shann wrote:

> Although Denemo is a GUI it can be set up to let you type in music using
> pretty much the same keystrokes as with a text editor typing LilyPond
> syntax.

I have heard many positive things about the power of Denemo. But everytime 
I decided to give it a try, I soon gave up because I just didn't like the 
interface and wasn't able to find my workflow in it.

Personal taste I guess.
I'm very happy with Gvim, Frescobaldi, and MuseScore and don't need much 
more options.

> I would be wary of any approach using MusicXML as a conversion format as
> it is not a format well-suited to representing music notation. (Not as
> unsuitable as MIDI, but still very poor).

I agree that no miracles should be expected from MusicXML. But it has 
helped me to speed up export from MuseScore to LilyPond in cases when I 
needed it. And there is still enough room for improving MusicXML support 
both from/to LilyPond and from/to MuseScore. So the total situation might 
improve in future. But that's a different topic.

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MT