Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:
I am just curious about the philosophy of WYSIWYG music editors. Many
scores on the WIMA are made with such editors, and often the
corresponding "source" is also available there.
Assume now I master the basics of such an editor, but when I print a
WIMA score made with the same editor, I find something beyond my current
knowledge, like an ossia part, an inverted slur across staves, or some
other tricky notation, and I would like to use this notation too.
Can I learn from the "source" available, in a way similar you can adapt
some MusiXTeX or PMX code from an existing source to your case? Here I
mean situations other than just copy/paste a symbol.
Based on my indeed limited experience with one of those WYSIWIG editors,
Finale, my answer is that you'd probably be able to examine the
properties of an 'object' like a cross-staff inverted slur by
double-clicking on it in an editorial context.
Is the word "source" appropriate with such editors?
Another name for files containing code required for generating a human
readable score is 'typesetting file'. While the coding format of Finale
typesetting files ('enigma' !!) is definitely not human readable other
formats converge towards textual, more or less intuitively readable
formats like MusicXML, a format supporting ao. Finale, Sibelius,
NoteEdit and Lilypond. The Open source WYSIWIG editor NoteEdit in its
turn exports PMX and MusiXTeX and uses the format of the textbased MUP
editor for internal storage. My point is that a distinction between
'typesetting file' and 'source file' isn't that easy when it comes to
score engraving.
--
Christian Mondrup
Recorder music archive
http://www.saers.com/recorder/mondrup/
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