Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org> writes: > Am 27.04.2014 20:15, schrieb Steven Arntson: >> I may be getting in over my head with this question. I'm a new user >> of Lilypond, >> transitioning away from Musescore. I've >> been using Frescobaldi a bit, and am impressed with it so far. >> >> However, I see there's an Emacs mode available through org-babel called >> "Arrange Mode". I'm a user of Emacs (though far from an expert!), and I >> love the environment. >> >> Does anyone have familiarity with both, who could highlight a few of >> the >> differences? Frescobaldi has many features I doubt I'll use much (such >> as the Quick Insert menu). Mainly what I like about it is the >> integration of the windows--text entry, music display, lilypond >> messages, and MIDI playback. I wonder if that could be done with a >> dedicated Emacs instance. > > I don't know the Emacs mode so I won't make a recommendation (which > would be very much biased as I'm a heavy Frescobaldi user). > > But what I think could be an interesting aspect for you is: If you're > already an Emacs user you might be able to integrate LilyPond work > well with your existing toolchains with that.
That's definitely a consideration for me. Emacs has a mode called org-mode that provides some conveniences for manipulating large text files, maintaining "to do" notes, &c. I'm a writer by trade, and I use it to organize the text of novels. I may repost this in an Emacs forum, too, to see if anyone's using Lilypond there. > >> >> I think I'm right that one can transpose scores in Frescobaldi? And >> maybe not in Arrange Mode. That could be a deciding factor. > > I'm not completely sure what your use case is here. But in general you > wouldn't use your editor to transpose a score as a whole (i.e. change > all the pitches in the input file). If you want to do that you'd > usually let LilyPond do the work for you. I'm new enough to this that I don't even know what functions are supplied by Lilypond and what by Frescobaldi! But this sounds like perhaps I could have Lilypond transpose something regardless of what frontend I'm using. Most of my use at present involves adapting some songs for an instrument that is not completely chromatic--so I'm entering the pitches as written, and then sort of nudging it up and down until I find a key that is playable. Thank you! steven > > HTH > Urs > >> >> Thank you! >> Steven Arntson >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
