Carl Peterson <carlopeter...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Eduardo Silva > <eduardo.su...@hotmail.com>wrote: > >> >> What I would be interested in is a WYSIWYG editor that would be able to >> take down notes and output a basic ly file, perhaps to Dropbox. >> >> Hi, I think there are some editors for Android/Ipad that will at least >> output to ABC or MusicXML, you could try exporting it from there, no? >> > > Probably could. The issue I've had with point-and-click editors in general > is that they add a lot more information than I necessarily want. I compose > almost exclusively for SATB voices. I have a template that--in coordination > with editing some of the internal Scheme files--allows me to input each > voice as a variable and then does the automatic part combining. I also put > bar and break information in a separate voice, so the only thing I want in > the LP output are bare music essentials of notes, slurs and ties (and maybe > a couple of other things that escape me at the moment). I've tried to use > both MuseScore and Denemo to speed up the compositional work and output a > file I can use in my template, but I've found that I spend more time > stripping their output of all the extra information that the template > doesn't need than I do if I just used my usual type and test workflow. > There may be a setting for them not to output this information. If there > is, I don't know about it.
Tried Frescobaldi? It has templates if you want them, but essentially it is a LilyPond source editor, meaning that you are responsible for everything that gets written in the LilyPond file. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
