Re: Anyone using a tablet for lily?

[David Kastrup]

Carl Peterson <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Eduardo Silva
> <address@hidden>wrote:
>
>>
>> What I would be interested in is a WYSIWYG editor that would be able to
>> take down notes and output a basic ly file, perhaps to Dropbox.
>>
>> Hi, I think there are some editors for Android/Ipad that will at least
>> output to ABC or MusicXML, you could try exporting it from there, no?
>>
>
> Probably could. The issue I've had with point-and-click editors in general
> is that they add a lot more information than I necessarily want. I compose
> almost exclusively for SATB voices. I have a template that--in coordination
> with editing some of the internal Scheme files--allows me to input each
> voice as a variable and then does the automatic part combining. I also put
> bar and break information in a separate voice, so the only thing I want in
> the LP output are bare music essentials of notes, slurs and ties (and maybe
> a couple of other things that escape me at the moment). I've tried to use
> both MuseScore and Denemo to speed up the compositional work and output a
> file I can use in my template, but I've found that I spend more time
> stripping their output of all the extra information that the template
> doesn't need than I do if I just used my usual type and test workflow.
> There may be a setting for them not to output this information. If there
> is, I don't know about it.

Tried Frescobaldi?  It has templates if you want them, but essentially
it is a LilyPond source editor, meaning that you are responsible for
everything that gets written in the LilyPond file.

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David Kastrup