I guess I had better join in this "off"-topic. I use Lilypond and Emacs on Ubuntu 12.04. I previously use Score for the flute-and-harp arrangements that my former partner and I used to publish. I found learning to use Lilypond effectively much harder to than Score was.
It's always much easier to hear wrong notes than to spot them in a printed score, so I use midi output for that purpose. I am 68, and recently retired as an orchestral flautist. I am mainly using Lilypond to put all of the music I ever composed into printed form. This is not really a vanity project - I know that my compositions are not great works, and a few of them are absolute rubbish! - but it keeps me doing something musical which will occupy me for years to come. Having said that, I was interested in Pete's mention of uploading things to IMSLP. I might consider putting some of my better pieces there. My computing background starts with a BBC Micro in 1982. I soon got into writing programs using BBC BASIC, but also loved using assembly language. I wrote a disassembler and output the whole of the OS in assembly language, on reams of fan-fold paper! I also wrote an interpreter (in assembler) for a language called Forth, which I was very keen on. After a few years away from computers, I came back to them in 1994. I have always enjoyed programming, and have dabbled with C, Perl, Java and a few other languages. I use Python for anything I seriously want to do. For many years I used Psion hand-held computers, and used its own OPL language for programming. Wanting to understand Scheme because of its use with Lilypond, I indirectly came across the book "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson & Sussman, and am slowly working my way through this. The disciplined approach to programming is something I could really do with! David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user