> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 09:26:34 +0200
> From: CRETEL Dominique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Someone tell me that a soft named Lilypond was born last year which
> vocation is to be a music preprocessor for PMX. Moreover, it is very
> simple at use and very friendly.
Lilypond is a completely new approach for typesetting music. It's
not a preprocessor (for PMX), but a big system for its own. It's based
on the experiences its authors made using MusicTeX, MusiXTeX and
with their outdated preprocessor MPP. Lilypond is a more logical
approach for typesetting music. So I doubt that it is very simple.
At least the installation isn't very friendly unless one is a
Un*x user with a lot of experience using make and makefiles.
A Windows version is available, but up to now I failed installing it
because I wasn't able to fetch all the external components (GCC,
run-time-systems) within the time I was willing to spent on this
experiment.
PMX is a pre-processor for MusiXTeX. It is very easy at use and
very user-friendly. It's more powerful if one knows some MusiXTeX
or some TeX, because MusiXTeX and plain TeX can be interspersed
into PMX-input for those features not available in PMX. Moreover
there is M-Tx a preprocessor for PMX for songs and choral music.
> Is there anybody who can send me some informations about it ? Where can
> I find it ? And does it still exist ?
All things concerning MusiXTeX can be found via
http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
There you find examples (source, ps-file, GIF) for PMX and M-Tx, too.
-- Werner
PS: There is a seperate mailing list for the discussion of Lilipond.
For Lilypond see: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond
