Out of curiosity, why the effort to build up from nothing? I
started Denemo from scratch instead of building on an existing program
only because the existing UNIX score editors (Rosegarden and kooBase)
were, well, unsatisfactory bases to work from for various reasons.
A quick redux on them: to start with, both programs were overly
mouse-driven. Also, it would have been way too difficult -- by the
author's own admission! -- to work with Rosegarden 2.1; newer versions are
still in cvs and still won't be working for a little while yet, and I
wanted a working system up sooner. And Denemo's almost functional to the
point of usability, though I suppose Rosegarden 3.0 still has a chance of
beating me. :) As for kooBase, the internal format was too closely tied to
MIDI and didn't explicitly denote where rests were, and it seemed that
changing this would require reworking way too much of the program.
I guess what I'm trying to ask is this: what makes the idea of
extending Denemo unsatisfactory for your purposes? I know almost nothing
about the MusiXTex or PMX formats, but I don't imagine it'd be all that
hard to add a function that'd allow Denemo to export to them. (Take a look
at exportmudela.c in the Denemo distribution, for example.)
Regards,
Matt
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Lukas Gruetzmacher wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to announce a new alpha release of MuX2d - a WYSIWYM editor for
> MusiXTeX.
> The current version is still very alpha. You can add and insert notes at
> any position in up to 6 instrument lines. MuX2d produce a MusiXTeX file
> wich will be proceed by TeX and musixflx and displayed by xdvi.
>
> Please have a look at
> http://mux2d.sourceforge.net/
>
> I know there are other projects like rosegarden and denemo. But why not
> one more?
>
> My first target for the moment is to use the core MusiXTeX. May be this is
> quite stupid. But I dont't know all feature of helpers like lilypond. Does
> they able to create gregorian notes? Is it able to produce "books" with
> SOME notes - for ex. text and music 50/50 ?
>
> I would like hear from you !
>
> Cheers,
> Lukas
>
