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Re: GUI for Windows
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Colin Campbell |
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Re: GUI for Windows |
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Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:29:47 -0700 |
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Michael S. Morales wrote:
My second question is will there ever be a graphical version for Windows?
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Because Lilypond is based on text files as input to a very sophisticated
rendering engine, a GUI in the sense of "enter code and see the final
score instantly" is probably some distance in the future. My toolkit of
choice in Windows is the combination of jEdit
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit/files/jedit/4.3/jedit4.3install.exe/download>
and the LilypondTool <http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?LilyPondTool>
plugin, which come pretty close. You still need to recompile the
Lilypond code, but having the source in one window and a .PDF preview
open in another, is pretty useful. The other feature I really like is
that the .PDF is linked back to the source, so you can click on a note
in the score and see where it came from in the code. As in all things
creative, YMMV but those two would be my recommendation of a place to
start.
Don't forget to take a bit of time with the Learning Manual, too! It's
tempting just to dive right in, and certainly Mutopia has lots of
examples to get you thinking, but start out with the tutorial, then try
coding up a few smaller works, songs or hymns or the like, and soon
you'll be away to the races.
Colin
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- GUI for Windows, Michael S. Morales, 2010/01/15
- Re: GUI for Windows,
Colin Campbell <=