I think that for typesetting purposes Lilypond is more powerful than MusicXML.
I have tried MuseScore in the past, probably close to 10 years ago, and I'm sure it has developed a lot since then. For my purposes at that time, however, Lilypond was more effective. When I started using it, I was in a jazz quintet and writing songs and arrangements; Lilypond made it easy to produce transposed lead sheets for Bb and Eb instruments as well as treble and bass clef in a matter of a few additional seconds. Once I had my templates established, I could go from a manuscript to a finished lead sheet very quickly. The release of the LilyJAZZ font was also a nice step; it looks like the traditional "Real Book" lead sheets and the music font is very clean and readable.
When Frescobaldi came along as a front end, that was a huge improvement in usability and efficiency. Those two applications together are in immensely powerful music engraving system. For my little projects, it sometimes feels like I'm using a giant CNC machine to make toothpicks. But they're really nice toothpicks!
Tim
> On Oct 26, 2021, at 1:47 PM, Charlie Boilley <boilley.c@outlook.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Relatively new user here.
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> Do MuseScore 4.x could attract Lilypond users or will Lilypond still be maintened in the next decade as a open source Dorico alternative ?
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> - How large is the Lilypond community ?
> - Why not a Discourse forum ?
> - Why not a clean MusicXML imprt / export thoughout a simpler music representation / abstraction that just works ?
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> Thank you for maintaining this powerful tool : the Csound / Lilypond / LaTeX trio is just sublime !
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> Have a good day !
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> Best,
> Ch. B
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