On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 07:11:22PM +0200, Joseph Wakeling wrote: > Bernardo Barros wrote: > > I wonder why not just work with Lilypond, or even modify Lilypond if > > necessary to atend contemporary notation. It's easier to humans to > > understad and it's already working ok :-) Maybe it has to do with the > > render time???? > > The 'Sibelius Academy' mention is probably the clue there. I think the > people involved were interested in developing a proprietary commercial > project, which is kind of difficult with a Lilypond derivative.
That's a rather large fail. "Sibelius Academy" is a university. http://www.siba.fi/en/ You might recall that Sibelius was a composer? A rather famous composer from Finland? In fact, some people might say "the *only* famous composer from Finland? (no offense intended to Fins) Scarce wonder that they named a university after him! > I think that one can probably do with Lilypond anything that this > package does, it's just that some of it will require more custom scheme > code than other stuff. I know that there have been some pretty > spectacular things done by some clever members of this list (see the > discussion some weeks back comparing Lilypond with SCORE). The ENP format is based on lisp. It's much easier for a computer to parse and create those files than "normal" lilypond files (somebody could work in lilypond entirely in scheme, but formatting a score that way would be quite odd). There's a graphical front-end for ENP... if you wanted to write music in it manually, you'd use a mouse. But the main purpose of ENP is for constraint programming. Since the focus is computer-generated music, the notation quality isn't as good as lilypond's. But nobody is pitching ENP as a replacement for high-quality sheet music. It's a program for music notation, created from a real university, by real researchers, made available for free. They seem to have used a non-free version of lisp to create binaries, but it's not clear if you require those or whether you can just run the lisp directly. I appreciate your enthusiasm for lilypond, but ENP does not deserve your scorn. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
