David Kastrup <[email protected]> schrieb: >Philip Rhoades <[email protected]> writes: > >> Kevin, >> >> >> On 2014-01-11 17:40, Kevin Tough wrote: >>> From a Fringe Coder, >>> >>> I like Vim (text editor). >> >> >> The choice of champions! >> >> >>> I like to code with minimal but descriptive >>> syntax(ie. Visual Basic). >> >> >> Basic will cause brain damage - try Ruby! > >For minimal but descriptive? More like Lua. Ruby is going the way of >Perl, dragging too much stuff into it without a plan. > >>> If MusicXML is guided by the right people and does become/is a >>> definitive standard that can support the keywords and other >>> particulars of lilypond code, then this might be a great opportunity >>> for the lilypond community. >> >> I hope so. > >MusicXML is not useful for writing music. Most of the user pressure >regarding LilyPond's syntax is to be writing stuff more convenient, >more >natural, more whatever category totally out of MusicXML's ballpark. > >I expect to be about as many people writing MusicXML by hand as are >people writing PDF by hand.
That's what that MEI guy said: they're lacking a convenient editing environment. This would be a good niche for LilyPond: acting as a more concise input language while at the same time working as an engraving engine. Frescobaldi is a good compromise in terms of graphical IDE, and I expect that we'll soon have an interface that will allow to edit things like comments and all the other MEI related metadata in dialogs. -- Urs Liska openlilylib.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
