Re: [Denemo-devel] A Transformation of how Denemo is perceived.

[Federico Bruni]

Il 25/09/2012 20:18, Richard Shann ha scritto:
> Denemo set out to be a GUI front end to LilyPond back in 1999.
> With the increasing power of computers I have realised that it no longer
> needs to be thought of in that way. It is now possible to think of
> Denemo as a program with two windows, one showing the music entry system
> the other the final printed score. By running LilyPond in the background
> the typeset score can pretty much keep up with typing music in,
> especially with single movement works. Even when it does not keep up, by
> the time you look across to see how things are progressing it is
> updated.

Premise: I'm not a Denemo user.
IIUC, a typical Denemo user works with music-entry view and 
lilypond-input: that would be the "front-end concept".

You propose to have music-entry + printed score (and keep lilypond-input 
as optional).
The good point is that you'll see the nice output _while_ you enter the 
notes.

> So Denemo becomes a program which differs from the conventional wysywyg
> programs only in how you edit the music - you can even click on a note
> in the typeset version and edit it directly using pc-keyboard or midi
> keyboard.
> Of course, the option of editing the LilyPond text is still there, but
> most users will never do that.

Are you sure?
I think that it's the main feature of Denemo, because I see it as a sort 
of trade-off for people who don't like text input but still want to have 
full control over the score output (and you probably have to tweak the 
lilypond input in this case).

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Federico