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Re: Migrating from commercial music notation software to free alternativ
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Urs Liska |
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Re: Migrating from commercial music notation software to free alternative |
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Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:07:43 +0000 |
12. Juni 2019 19:49, address@hidden schrieb:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, ah wrote:
>
>> ... using a TeX-based or TeX-like (free) music composition system, if
>> available and doing all programming, templating etc. in this myself.
>> Advantages: platform independent and free.
>
> Lilypond is not TeX-based nor conceptually TeX-like, despite the fact that
> it uses backslashes. Its programming interface is all based on Scheme and
> works quite differently from TeX macro expansion. If you just mean "free"
> when you say TeX-like, fine, but if you want something that is
> programmable the same way TeX is, then you should consider other free
> software that is more closely connected to TeX.
To clarify that: LilyPond *is* extremely programmable, it just feels different
than TeX.
You may also want to have a look at Abjad (http://abjad.mbrsi.org/), a
Python-based composer's tool that generates LilyPond code.
HTH
Urs
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Re: Migrating from commercial music notation software to free alternative, Karlin High, 2019/06/12
Re: Migrating from commercial music notation software to free alternative, Urs Liska, 2019/06/12
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