On 21/06/13 02:59, Br. Athanasius wrote:
I think that Gregorio would be far more complete and user-friendly if
there was a gui. Although everyone, and I do mean everyone on the
list has been exceptionally helpful with any question I have had
regarding installation and usage but I think that if a person didn't
have to explicitly install TeXlive(MikTeX, MacTeX) and then TeXworks
or whatever. I think the learning curve could be shaved down quite a
bit. I know of the very good online versions, I have used them on
numerous occasions and they have done what they were supposed to do
but I think Gregorio should have its own with LaTeX(or LuaTeX) built
in and mostly transparent so that a person can just concentrate on the
gabc and not have to worry about downloading, installing, and learning
LaTeX, or fussing with things in a main .tex file.
Off the top of my head, something like Frescobaldi which is an awesome
gui for Lilypond. You still have to learn a bit to be able to make a
good score but at least you don't have to work with two documents at
the same time as you do in Gregorio (the .gabc file and the main .tex
file). and there are many template and export options (pdf, svg, png).
Well, I had been thinking along the same line, but never formulated it,
because I think there is a major difference between Gregorio as it
stands now, and a GUI score editor.
Gregorio - as I understand it now - knows very little - if anything at
all - about music, but is all about graphics. Example: the notes are
notated in reference to the lines of the score, not to their "musical
tone". All GUI 's I know can play a score, in other words, they have to
interpret the note on the score in reference to the clef, which Gregorio
is totally unaware off. In most GUI's, you can also use keystrokes to
put notes on the score, but again, a G is positioned differently on a G
clef line than on a F Clef line.
So, I fear making a GUI for Gregorio is not just adding some more to the
existing structure, but is adding something quite essentially different.
Herman Viaene
P.S. I haven't looked specifically at Frescobaldi, so I don't know how
far it goes.
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