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Essentially, you are setting up an old-school computer directory, and if you don't know what you are doing (meaning, you have to know a little bit of coding) you'll get frustrated. Part extraction: To get automatic part extraction, you have to save each instrument in a separate file, link them in a master file, and edit back and forth.Modern music tools: presets for aleatoric boxes, squiggles, lines, etc.There are still some things that I cannot do. More intuitive control of slurs and ties.Also, if you don't know exactly what you are doing you will be banging your head against the wall when trying different numbers in the tweak yield ZERO effect. Right now it is a little better, but there are too many places to keep track of spacing and it's not as elegant as other aspects of the program. It would be amazing to simply say something to the effect ofĬode: Select all page.number = 1 system.number = 3 spacing.after = 4 and see the spacing after system 3 be tweaked. Better system-system management of spacing styles.There are a few things I begged for in LilyPond from the getgo: At the last minute, I had additional instruments added to the project, and it was the proving grounds for a lot of concepts in LilyPond. One of the first biggest projects I made in LilyPond was back in 2013 when I was asked to arrange a selection of a famous work by Brahms for String Quartet.
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I started using LilyPond before I started using broadband internet, and so my only source of comfort was downloading the Notation Reference and Learning Manual to aimlessly search for a solution).
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It is so much like programming, and I've been around enough programmers to know that they are dedicated enough to finding solutions to problems, and lazy enough to avoid learning how to do it from scratch (if the solution exists in someone else's snippet).
You must be good at googling and using the lingo found in the Notation Reference.You read the learning manual and recreate all of the examples from scratch (a la "Learn Python the Hard Way").
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You use it with an editor that autocompletes your code (such as Frescobaldi).What I can say confidently is that LilyPond is only usable when the following three conditions are met: I've used it to publish several academic and scholarly projects in recent years. I've learned how to tweak all of the elements of the page, spacing, etc. I've gotten right up to the point of creating modern scores in LilyPond.
I know this is late in the thread, but I wanted to make a comment about LilyPond. Scoresharp.png (206.73 KiB) Viewed 3861 times
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Incidentally, though SCORE is all vectors, it doesn't do curves - all the curves are drawn as series of short straight lines! (which is why creating and editing symbols was such a pain) Having written quite a few tools for manipulating SCORE files, and therefore being pretty familiar with a lot of the internal workings, I did make a start on a sort of desktop clone of it which at least got as far as opening up files and being able to display them in a window (at least partly - to implement the translation of all the parameter types and values into graphics would be a huge job, but I made a start on the basics), but that was rather too much work to keep up purely as a hobby, so I abandoned it. Having spent nearly 15+ years sitting in SCORE working all day it became second nature in the end and it was hard to imagine working any other way. This makes me feel sad as the real problems with it are the legacy hardware limits (vector limits per page, low screen resolution and that sort of thing) the way it works is fundamentally fine, for those who have the patience for it and who want to work that way. Still cheaper than Sibelius 7 which was £795 in those days as I recall. I bought my copy back in 2002 for £600 or something like that. (I'm the one doing the SCORE'ing in the video)
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