Thank you for the tips. I tried out jEdit with LilypondTool and found
that to be very helpful. The manual also helped. Thanks for your advice.
Regards,
~Michael~
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On 1/15/2010 9:29 PM, Colin Campbell wrote:
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
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