On Wed 22 Nov 2017 at 11:43:37 (+0100), Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 20.11.2017 18:12, Hilary Snaden wrote: > >If there are any "graphical tools" as good as LaTeX, I'll be > >interested to hear of them. > > Adobe InDesign is certainly in many ways a “better” tool than LaTeX, > in some “just as good” (like with the line breaking algorithms that > it learned from TeX), and in some “less useful”, I’d assume > particularly due to its closed source nature and lack of plain text > input format.
I was under the impression that A-ID was now a rental service, not a bought product. This carries the implication that continued access to your own files is conditional on paying the rental fee (for ever). BTW I don't think it has been revealed what the "graphical tools" are that were alluded to in the OP. I started using LilyPond in 2007 on Debian's sarge which used LP 2.2.6, still through the DVI→PS→PDF chain, but I quickly moved to 2.8.7 later in the year. My wife had bought a windows GUI program which she quickly outgrew. Instead, she typed in the basic notes and lyrics, and I did the rest with LP. I migrated to Debian linux in 1996 on its first named release, after a brief flirtation with Slackware running over a DOS filesystem (UMSDOS), thereby coexisting with DOS/Windows3.1. I migrated from GCAL on Phoenix (daisy-wheel printers!) to …TeX in 1986, originally running on DOS and Vaxen. I settled on emacs at about the same time after a variety of highly customised platform-specific editors. I now use the LuaTeX engine with all PDF files apart from the odd jpg/png. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
