Re: architecture document?

[Adam Griggs]

    Hello,
      
      This page should point you in the right direction:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/136571/musixtex-vs-lilypond
      
      More on MusiXTeX:
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusiXTeX
      https://www.ctan.org/pkg/musixtex
      
      Sadly, MusiXTeX suffered a
      terrible blow with the accidental death of its maintainer in 2003,
      and to quote the official documentation, "Since then, the only
      significant update to MusiXTEX has been in version 1.15 (April
      2011) which takes advantage of the greater capacity of the eTEX
      version of TEX."
      
      Adam.

On 15/10/20 10:11 am, Tom Sgouros wrote:

Hello all:

I've recently started using Lilypond and so far it's great. I don't think I'm saying anything surprising by observing what seems to be a close family resemblance to TeX. Did it start out as TeX macros and diverge? 

I wonder if there is a document out there that might talk about the design choices made in putting Lilypond together that might compare and contrast it with TeX? Lessons learned? 

Thank you,

 -Tom