Michael S. Morales wrote:
My second question is will there ever be a graphical version for Windows? --
Because Lilypond is based on text files as input to a very sophisticated rendering engine, a GUI in the sense of "enter code and see the final score instantly" is probably some distance in the future. My toolkit of choice in Windows is the combination of jEdit <http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit/files/jedit/4.3/jedit4.3install.exe/download> and the LilypondTool <http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?LilyPondTool> plugin, which come pretty close. You still need to recompile the Lilypond code, but having the source in one window and a .PDF preview open in another, is pretty useful. The other feature I really like is that the .PDF is linked back to the source, so you can click on a note in the score and see where it came from in the code. As in all things creative, YMMV but those two would be my recommendation of a place to start.
Don't forget to take a bit of time with the Learning Manual, too! It's tempting just to dive right in, and certainly Mutopia has lots of examples to get you thinking, but start out with the tutorial, then try coding up a few smaller works, songs or hymns or the like, and soon you'll be away to the races.
Colin -- When you find a big kettle of crazy, it's best not to stir it. - Scott Adams, "Dilbert" Sept 22,'09 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
