Sorry I wasn't a little more clear in first Email. Its just that a more immediate method of displaying a screen output in a page layout would go a long way to making Linux computerized music typesetting more efficient.
To answer as to whether or not I'm a troll, well, if I was I sure wouldn't be trying to help create something with no serious prospects of financial pay back. What I would love to see is a music notation device that could become a swiss army knife to teachers, composers and any musically literate player who uses a computer. If this imaginary system could be encorperated in the linux os, all the better. Funny though most of the musicians and teachers I know around here (Victoria B.C.) use older Apples to typeset music, with either Encore or Finale. They usually complain bitterly about the price and most of them, because of the cost, will not think twice about piracy. Yes I have tried Lilypond but find that the process of visualisation of its output from only its input language is a long climb, not unlike writing in c++. Not nearly as difficult as Musixtex, but still a long process. A gui with a command line and some carefully thought out functions for file and settings, that could pipe its output to Lilypond and return a rewritten screen at each entry should be possible. If the system resource usages are planned very carefully, then newer processors with adequate ram should have no trouble accomplishing good output speed. I feel that this would greatly lessen the learning curve in Lilypond and make quick accurate typesetting of original composition possible. Thanks for your reply, Musically yours Eric Reesor _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
