Jeff Henrikson wrote:
>
> > Forgive me, but I don't know enough about the gimp to know whether this
> > would be practical or not.
> >
> > If most notes and symbols were layered on fields small enough to hold
> > in memory but large enough to grab, fine adjustments could be made in
> > the gimp by dragging. I'm sure that we all would rather that everything
> > worked without problems, but this would be a way to improve useability
> > *now*.
>
> The gimp? I wouldn't recommend it, as the gimp is a bitmap editor as opposed to a
>vector drawing program. Unfortunately there has
> never been a good free vector editor. Xfig just doesn't cut it compared to
>CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator in the way that GIMP
> compares to Adobe Photoshop. Recently there has been of course the adoption of the
>SVG scalable vector format based on XML by W3C,
> and more recently an attempt by GNOME to do an SVG editor ("Gill") and the further
>along KIllustrator for KDE. A good summary from
> the perspective of the authors of Gill:
>
> http://www.levien.com/svg/report1.html
>
> KIllustrator might be a good way to go. Um, is Lily still using bitmap fonts, or is
>it using all metapost outlines? Are lingering
> bitmaps the reason for fonts in discrete increments (paper20, paper16 etc)? That
>could actually make a big difference in terms of
> feasibilty. If slurs are already pixelated in the output, you are screwed from the
>start.
>
> Keep in mind this is still really going to suck if you take time to tweak all your
>rests and then you find out there is something
> wrong with the actual music, in which case you will have to futz coordinates all
>over again.
Have a look at the utility XCircuit
http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/xcircuit/ referenced to from the
web site Sound & MIDI Software For Linux http://www.linuxsound.at/.
XCircuit is a vector based drawing utility for technical drawing with
some additional music libraries. There are samples of music typesetting
from the xcircuit web page.
Regards
--
Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer
Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus
Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
Phone: +45 89 49 53 01
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