I think that for typesetting purposes Lilypond is more powerful than MusicXML.
I have tried MuseScore in the past, probably close to 10 years ago, and I'm sure it has developed a lot since then. For my purposes at that time, however, Lilypond was more effective. When I started using it, I was in a jazz quintet and writing songs and arrangements; Lilypond made it easy to produce transposed lead sheets for Bb and Eb instruments as well as treble and bass clef in a matter of a few additional seconds. Once I had my templates established, I could go from a manuscript to a finished lead sheet very quickly. The release of the LilyJAZZ font was also a nice step; it looks like the traditional "Real Book" lead sheets and the music font is very clean and readable. When Frescobaldi came along as a front end, that was a huge improvement in usability and efficiency. Those two applications together are in immensely powerful music engraving system. For my little projects, it sometimes feels like I'm using a giant CNC machine to make toothpicks. But they're really nice toothpicks! Tim > On Oct 26, 2021, at 1:47 PM, Charlie Boilley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Relatively new user here. > > Do MuseScore 4.x could attract Lilypond users or will Lilypond still be > maintened in the next decade as a open source Dorico alternative ? > > - How large is the Lilypond community ? > - Why not a Discourse forum ? > - Why not a clean MusicXML imprt / export thoughout a simpler music > representation / abstraction that just works ? > > Thank you for maintaining this powerful tool : the Csound / Lilypond / LaTeX > trio is just sublime ! > > Have a good day ! > > Best, > Ch. B > >
