>>>>> "ethan" == ethan a young <ethan.y.us@email-addr-hidden> writes:
ethan> i was really excited when i first discovered lilypond, but
ethan> it's intimidating to get started in (hah, this coming from
ethan> someone who abandoned windows and went fully to linux on a
ethan> whim... :) regardless, i don't know how to make lilypond
ethan> work to produce scores...i tried with the jEdit front-end,
ethan> but that never worked well.
ethan> i haven't ruled out lilypond, but it seems like programmers
ethan> are most comfortable using it, and i am no programmer...
Like other programming languages, you start with something that works,
and then modify it to work the way you want it to.
I got started with ABC, and used abc2ly for a number of years rather
than writing the lilypond directly.
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