[PD] [OT] Music Notation in linux

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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>Subject: [PD] [OT] Music Notation in linux
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>Hey Guys
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>Sorry if this is on the wrong list, but I'm looking for an open source package to prepare some choral sheet music. So far I've found musescore, note edit and lilypond, but I'm not sure if I want to use any of them. Has written any sheet music in linux? Any advice on what to use? 
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>Lilypond looks interesting, edited in plain text, then prepares a score as an image. It's a command-line scoring package!!! But I'm not sure if I want to learn to read the text file, which would be needed to write music in it. 
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>Anyway, I'm willing to listen to any advice on this. 


I would suggest Lilypond with either Lilypondtool or Frescobaldi to enter the music:
http://lilypond.org/easier-editing.html


I've used Lilypondtool and it has a nice wizard so that you can get boilerplate for your choral score and then just 

focus on entering the notes.  (Also it let's you see some of the commands and tweaks in dropdown lists so you don't 

have to constantly refer to the notation guide to make simple tweaks.)

-Jonathan


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