A friend of mine dislikes composing music on the commercial software he
owns (Si..us). The main reason is that he is into modern, avant-garde
music and the notation on his current system is just not there yet or
what's offered does not satisfy him. He is a professional music composer.
I have no idea about music composition.
He asked me for helping him and I see I have two choices, either I
experiment writing some plugin for his current commercial software I
mentioned, which is uncharted waters for me plus only available on an OS
I don't have, or ...
... using a TeX-based or TeX-like (free) music composition system, if
available and doing all programming, templating etc. in this myself.
Advantages: platform independent and free.
I can manage any installation challenge and possibly I can persuade him
to free himself from the GUI for the sake of programmability and
typesetting/engraving quality.
So, my question is:
Has anyone here had any experience with both the free and the commercial
music-composition softwares and can give some advice whether it's wise
to dump the commercial for the free without compromising typesetting
quality which is my primary metric.
And also whether there will be lots and lots of symbol libraries for him
to choose from?
(also posted on
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/495468/migrating-from-commercial-music-notation-software-to-free-alternative)
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