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Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond |
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Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:53:34 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
John Link <address@hidden> writes:
> A few years ago I was encouraged to try LilyPond as an alternative to
> Sibelius because LilyPond produced more beautiful scores. I was also
> told that it would allow me to do things like specify that bars 25
> through 32 are to be identical to bars 9 through 16 and avoid cutting
> and pasting from bars 9-16 into 25-32. I liked what I heard, but I was
> quite shocked by LilyPond's interface.
That's a bit like saying you tried to learn French but were shocked by
the keyboard layout.[1]
> I would be interested in hearing from any Sibelius users who have
> successfully learned LilyPond. How can I get going in LilyPond as
> quickly as possible?
Become good friends with an editor. I think that Frescobaldi is
supposed to be reasonably nice.
> In case it's relevant, I should add that I used to program in FORTRAN
> and a little bit of UNIX but never in any other languages.
Program in UNIX? What do you mean by that? Shell scripts?
Footnotes:
[1] I mean, yes, I am shocked as well. Like my last laptop, I bought
my present one with "German keyboard provided through indestructible
[haha] stickers". And I expected that I'd get the American keyboard I
am used to by peeling off those stickers, like it worked the last few
times.
--
David Kastrup
- Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, John Link, 2012/03/12
- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond,
David Kastrup <=
- Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, John Link, 2012/03/12
- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, David Bobroff, 2012/03/12
- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, John Link, 2012/03/12
- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, David Bobroff, 2012/03/12
- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, John Link, 2012/03/12
- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, David Bobroff, 2012/03/12
- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, Janek WarchoĊ, 2012/03/12
- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, Rodolfo Zitellini, 2012/03/13
- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, James, 2012/03/13
- Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond, Stjepan Horvat, 2012/03/13