Sorry for not responding sooner. This slipped into my Junk mail folder
and I just found it.
First off, Gregorio itself does not have a GUI. It is a command-line
tool which converts a text representation of Gregorian chant (known as
gabc notation) into a series of TeX commands which LuaTeX (a
command-line document typesetting program) can render into real scores
using the instructions found in gregoriotex. The system is inherently a
multistep process (though recent improvements have simplified things a bit).
The user interface will depend largely on how you use TeX, of which
there are countless variations, depending on the TeX distribution you
use, your operating system, and your own preferences when it comes to
editor and workflow (TeX files are plain text and thus can be edited
with an almost countless number of editors). We list a few of the
options on our website to get you started in deciding which is best for
you, but ultimately the choice is left to the user.
If you've never used TeX (in any of its varieties) before, then I
personally recommend starting with the TeXLive distribution. It comes
with a fairly comprehensive set of tools and packages which will allow
you to do almost anything your heart desires once you get used to how
things work. Further, it comes with TeXworks bundled with it. TeXworks
is an editor which recognizes TeX commands and structure and uses syntax
highlighting to make reading the source easier.
While we describe the basic installation process for TeXLive on our
website, we do not support it ourselves. Since most of our users have
installed it themselves, you can sometimes get some help with the
installation process here, but if something goes majorly wrong with the
installation process, you'll need to get in touch with TUG, the
maintainers of TeXLive to work things out.
Once you have TeXLive installed (or another distribution of TeX, if you
decide to go that route), then it's time to install Gregorio. On
Windows this is as easy as downloading and using the installer. I
recommend using the development version here, as the "current" version
(2.3) is very out of date at this point. We developers are not very
good at releasing proper versions (we are trying to change that).
Because of permissions issues on Windows, the installer is only able to
setup TeXworks for the administrator who runs it. Everyone else will
have to set it up manually. Fortunately a recent change makes this
process simpler. I've just updated the website to reflect this (it
might take an hour or so before the change propagates properly on the
servers). All you need is the LuaLaTeX engine (gregorio and greg-book
are obsolete), but you need to make sure that "--shell-escape" is the
first argument for it (the other two arguments remain, they just get
moved down the list).
Once everything is installed, you'll want to look at the tutorials on
gabc (http://home.gna.org/gregorio/tutorial/tutorial-gabc-01) and
GregorioTeX (http://home.gna.org/gregorio/introduction) to start
learning how to create a score.
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Br. Samuel, OSB
(R. Padraic Springuel)
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