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Linuxmusician.com Interviews LilyPond Authors
jcn writes "Chris Cannam talks to the authors of one of the best-known and most ambitious music programs for Linux, the LilyPond score engraving system. Unlike other typesetting software like Finale or Sibelius, LilyPond is not a score editor, it aims to use simple textual description of the music and turn it into the highest possible quality output, automatically. Han-Wen says: In my opinion, any file format that claims to be universal should have two properties: it should have an expressive structure, so other formats can be expressed in it, and it should be as lean as possible, so that converting from other formats amounts to removing information. I think that MusicXML fits neither. Ouch." -
Music Notation Software For Unix?
CapnCheapo asks: "I was just wondering if there has been any progress on a Finale-quality music notation system out there for Linux yet? There are plenty of sequencers and simple notation programs, but I need a program that can do heavy-duty scoring, (30 staves, transposition, score analysis, custom beaming) in a graphical environment. Lilypond is great for typsetting, but is not an ideal environment for playing with musical ideas. Thanks!"