Hello,

I would like to share my new editor with you, after a *HUGE* work that
I made in the past months.
The new editor seems to me mature now and it is so much evolved compared to
my previous experiments that I even changed its name (now it's called
"Spontini"). As explained in the homepage:

*) It allows the positioning of musical objects (articulations, texts,
pedals, curves, brackets etc.) with the mouse, both for "avoid-collisions"
properties (X/Y-offset, staff-padding, outside-staff-padding, padding) and
for extra-offset property. Once the positioning is graphically done, the
text editor reports the corresponding changes on the input file: these
changes are written in standard Lilypond code and do not require any
additional software to be compiled.

*) It assists in the creation of piano music by inserting notes in tabular
and formatted form. It also supports cross-staff scores through a set of
work-arounds (invisible to the user) that solve many issues of the native
cross-staff functions.

https://github.com/paolo-prete/Spontini

Several examples are provided.

Note that it's *absolutely not* a WYSIWYG editor. Instead, it is an
*assistant* for the text editor.

I invite you to try this editor and, if you can, leave me feedback: it is
very difficult for me to do a really deep test because there are many and
many features. And I'm doing all this *alone* ... . Of course any
contribution from you would be great (And I am enormously grateful to Aaron
and Harm who helped me in the Scheme code. Without their help all this
would not have been possible)

Various things are in the TODO list, but I think it's good to publish a dev
snapshot right now, because I think that the editor can already be used, as
I do for my scores.

In the next few weeks I'll show to the ML how to create a complex piano
score with a professional look and a very accurate micro-tuning of all the
grobs in a very short time, with my editor. But before this I need to
create a release of the project and I would be really grateful to anyone
interested in testing (I could test it on Windows only though a virtual
machine...)

Thank you for your attention!

P

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