Re: [linux-audio-dev] LilyPond interview on linuxmusician.com

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] LilyPond interview on linuxmusician.com
From: Paul Davis (paul_AT_linuxaudiosystems.com)
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 04:27:59 EET


>I see Lilypond as one of the top Linux Audio projects.
>It addresses the same critical issue for score editing and typesetting
>that linux audio applications had to address in order to achieve
>low-latency, non-destructive audio editing.

i did too, until i read about a tool called amadeus. it too is a
cmdline tool. it originally existed for the pdp-11, and was ported to
many proprietary unix systems over the years. it runs on linux these
days.

it appears that many people don't know about amadeus. its not open
source, but several custom/boutique music engraving places use it
(search for "amadeus music engraving" on google). its been around the
block more than a few times, and my guess is that it already does a
lot of what lilypond can do, plus quite a few things it can't do yet.

amadeus doesn't invalidate lilypond, but finding out about it made me
think again about the level of "revolution" that lilypond's quality
represents. lilypond will be invaluable to many individuals who might
otherwise have to use finale or sibelius, but for people doing music
typesetting for a living, i have the feeling that they haven't been
waiting for lilypond at all.

>* a GUI would turn Lilypond into a composition tool aswell. Integrating

sf.net has at least a couple already.

--p


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