Hi Eyolf,
Eyolf Ostrem wrote: > Which frontends do yo all use for lilypond? Here's the ones I've tried out so > far, with my experiences - some bad, some good: > > 1. NoteEdit. > however: I haven't found a keyboard shortcut for \breve and \longa - > essential > if one writes a lot of renaissance music. Also, It would have been nice if > Breve: I just added a shortcut for it, it's in the NoteEdit svn (and will be included in the 2.8.1 release coming out soon). Longa: Does NoteEdit really support it? At least I don't see how you would input it. It's not a big problem adding more shortcuts for me. > one could generate a lilypond output on the fly, of whatever one has written > in, without having to go through the process of exporting, opening the file, > copy-pasting into the "real" document, etc. > No problem, with the current version from SVN you can just do that. Just fine-tune your printing and preview options and you're done. You can even use a bash script or something similar as custom command for previewing or printing the file. > Also, I miss things like a default score setup, a snippet/templates library, > a > menu for inserting more specific lilypond commands (but I realize it's not > only a lilypond frontend, so that's probably too much to ask). > But all in all, it's so far my favorite frontend - not for generating whole > scores, but for entering the music which I can then paste into another text > file. > > Not at all impossible, but for us it is unfortunately. We recently started on a project called Canorus that will be the NoteEdit successor. But that won't help you for quite a while. If you're interested in that, you can write your idea to the wiki (I'll create an account for you). http://canorus.berlios.de/wiki/index.php > Have I missed anything? > > Was there mscore in your list (muse score)? I haven't looked at that though. Best, Reinhard -- Software-Engineer, Developer of User Interfaces Project: Canorus - the next generation music score editor - http://canorus.berlios.de GnuPG Public Key available on request _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
