On Friday, 7 January 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I've just discovered Lilypond and find it really
> fantastic. There's no many "open source" software dedicated
> to music, especially to music creation. Lilypond is
> straight in the linux and latex philosophy and i find that
> really great.
Thanks.
> I really like to use Lilypond to make a paper version
> of my own compositions but i'm really scared when i think i'd
> have to write the source ASCII files. I'd like to generate
> a Postscript output from a MIDI file (recorded with
> whatever sequencer) rather than from an ASCII file.
> This would be VERY great ! Is it possible ?
It is possible, but probably not as great as you think. MIDI is
meant for sound, and is a poor standard for notation.
> I no, i think this would have to be done. A program
> "mid2lilypond" would be a cool solution. no ?
LilyPond comes with midi2ly. But you're warned, typing text files
may be a lot quicker.
Jan.
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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