On Saturday, 19 June 1999, Damunt writes:
> I've been thinking about working in a music playing and editing system
> which works with LilyPond, as it is asked in GNU Task List.
Did you see the faq entry:
question(Is there a GUI frontend? Should I start building one?)
LilyPond currently has no graphical interface. The authors seriously
doubt if a simple-minded approach (dragging and dropping notes) is any
easier or quicker to use than mudela. But for composing a graphical
environment probably is indispensable.
In any case email(Derek Wyatt)([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is working on
GTK based editor, but that is still in an embryonal stage (see
lurl(http://harmonia.scar.utoronto.ca). There is also a GUI package
RoseGarden that could be extended to output mudela.
The harmonia effort has been 'sleeping' the past year, I guess.
Last I heard from RoseGarden, they were in a transition to gtk.
And, from the mail archives, I should add (although it's in tcl/tk):
From: Matthew Hiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: An (albeit still primitive) GUI frontend for producing mudela
http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/~meh25/MISClily/MISClily-0.0.1.tar.gz
(An extension of Jan Wuerthner's MIDIscore that allows you to save
a file as mudela.)
The program is very rudimentary right now, but does work. That is,
it can produce a single mudela file that typesets correctly. Well... with
a number of limitations; the translation procedure's still very, very
naive. To get a proper .ly file at the moment, work in 4/4, don't put in
any rests, open the track preferences toolbar and rename all of your
tracks before saving, and expect enharmonic spelling that greatly favors
sharps.
Don't worry; great refinements are already in the works.
(Including plans to use one modular mudela file for each instrument
which'll get plugged into part and score files via \include's, and so on.)
Matt Hiller
> I'd prefer to write it in C++, is there any problem with this?
It would be your call. Lily is in C++ too.
> I guess the best toolkit to use is GTK+, what C++ interface for gtk+
> should I use, Gtk-- or wxWindows?
Don't know about this, from what I've heard I'd say that gtk-- is the
'standard' wrapper for gtk. Also, I'm not sure about the wxWindows
licence.
> Thanks..
Good luck,
Jan.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/ | http://www.lilypond.org/
