3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
4:12 p.m.
On 12/3/2005 at 10:48 AM Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Rosegarden is pretty good. If you're serious about
computer-produced
notation you'd use Lilypond though. From what I've seen of Rosegarden
(I use hardware sequencers rather than stuff on the PC) it can export
Lilypond source files.
I've tried writing orchestral and brass band scores with Rosegarden and
gave up. It's just too difficult compared to the commercial Mac/Win
packages. And, in spite of the hype on Lilypond (it's an engraving
package, not an editor), when you need to do something that's unusual, it
can be a real chore--you can't get Rosegarden to make the appropriate
Lilypond file, so you're forced to go in an edit the notation file
manually.
There are other --nix based engraving tools, such as MusicTeX, but for the
"I've got to get a quintet score out in less than an hour" task, none of
the -nix tools is up to the job. And I know of no --nix package that has
an OCR tool for scanning old scores.
Indeed, one of the bastions of demonstrating what MusicTex can do, the
Werner Icking Archive, has gone to accepting scores written in just about
any notation package.
I'll look into NetBSD, thanks for the recommendation.
Cheers,
Chuck