To all:
Hope this isn't inappropriate. I found Lilypond a few weeks ago and
have been trying to familiarize myself with it; I have a MM in
Performance, have done quite a bit of composing, arranging, and
orchestration, so I thought it would be interesting, now that I'm
beginning courses in computer programming, to see the guts of music
engraving. I would like to learn more about how to develop things for
Lilypond, including a GUI interface, but I'm still pretty green on the
programming side. Is there a comprehensive documentation anywhere
explaining the makeup of the source code?
I've seen several references to GUI front-ends for Lilypond; could
someone please re-post those URLs so I can check them out? It might be
much easier to enter music accurately; I note that much of the time,
polyphonic music (piano-vocal) is very difficult to code via plaintext
without numerous errors.
Also, I just saw that one of the original developers is NOT really a fan
of C++; if you were to try again today, what language would you use and
why? I'm mostly familiar with C++ and Java (yeah, big diff there, I
know), but I'm wondering about using the VS.NET IDE to do something like
this.
Finally, I'd like to say, thanks for creating this! It's nice at the
very least to have some open-source version of music engraving software
to fight off the Finale urge.
Paul
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