I used to use Crimson for writing lilypond. Excellent for small projects, less convenient for a large project with one main file to be compiled and several other files contaning the music for individual staves.
I can now recommend another editor, PSPad, which like Crimson is a general programmer's editor and useful for Lilypond. * freeware * supports compilation, viewing compiler output, and parsing the output to jump to a line in the source file which produces an error or warning * [This is what made me move from Crimson to PSPad] supports projects in which you can specify a "Main file", so that when you press the button to compile, lilypond is run on the main file that you have specified, even if you are currently working on a different file (for instance, if you have the music for different staves held in individual files) * support for UTF-8, so accented characters are handled easily * syntax highlighting; I attach a PSPad highlighter file for lilypond * configurable keyboard shortcuts, so you can set up keys for compiling, and for viewing the result in GSView or other viewers. PSPad is Windows only, available from http://www.pspad.com/ There are many editors, and I don't want to start an argument about whether X is better than Y. Just to point interested users to one that has a broadly similar style to Crimson but has an extra feature that saves me a lot of trouble. And is freeware. David Griffel http://www.nabble.com/file/p11462658/Lilypond.INI Lilypond.INI -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/PSPad%3A-a-Lily-friendly-editor-for-Windows-tf4034990.html#a11462658 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
