Re: A thought on Windows Experience

[David Kastrup]

Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 09:52 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Denemo: this is a GUI application for writing music scores that uses
>> LilyPond internally for creating its output.  While working with it,
>> you will not be exposed to the LilyPond language at all,
>
> This is incorrect. If you double click on a note, repeat bar ... you
> are told the LilyPond syntax that this element has created. If you
> switch to the LilyPond view of the Denemo score you see the LilyPond
> syntax and can edit it. There are some limitations still in that
> editing (e.g.  changing a note to a different note is still not
> possible, and there is no syntax highlighting, but you can re-write
> entirely the score layout starting from the default).

Ok ok, I guess I'll get the Midi-equipped accordion from the storage,
see whether any contacts are stuck, install a current version of Denemo
and get myself informed.

>>  and the LilyPond documentation will be mostly irrelevant.
>
> I think this is not so either: it is slightly daft that you need to
> run the insert LilyPond command in the main Denemo display rather than
> in the LilyPond view in order to start inserting text, but the
> LilyPond syntax is entirely relevant if you want to do things that
> Denemo does not have built in. Ok, so it is mostly irrelevant if you
> just want to do things that Denemo has built in, but I am sure you
> have written all that other LilyPond syntax for very good reasons :)

How does Denemo's relation to LilyPond compare to LyX's with LaTeX?
Anybody here who knows both?

-- 
David Kastrup