ah writes:
> Thank you people for the very useful insight and the links.
>
> First, to clarify that by Tex-like I meant programmatically, either
> (La)TeX macros or Scheme plus data.
>
> It looks the task must involve Sibelius at all costs. So migrating is
> not going to happen. However I am warm
Thank you people for the very useful insight and the links.
First, to clarify that by Tex-like I meant programmatically, either
(La)TeX macros or Scheme plus data.
It looks the task must involve Sibelius at all costs. So migrating is
not going to happen. However I am warm on the idea of creat
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, David Kastrup wrote:
> > LaTeX users are accustomed to writing macros in a Turing-complete language
> > with, for instance, if statements.
>
> LaTeX or TeX users?
I said LaTeX users because you did, but the statement is true about both.
TeX users were the original topic of thi
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca writes:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, David Kastrup wrote:
>> > nor conceptually TeX-like, despite the fact that it uses backslashes.
>>
>> It's a batch processing system with plain text input syntax. That makes
>> for workflows not unaccustomed to LaTeX users. By the way, it d
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, David Kastrup wrote:
> > nor conceptually TeX-like, despite the fact that it uses backslashes.
>
> It's a batch processing system with plain text input syntax. That makes
> for workflows not unaccustomed to LaTeX users. By the way, it did
LaTeX users are accustomed to writin
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca writes:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, ah wrote:
>> ... using a TeX-based or TeX-like (free) music composition system, if
>> available and doing all programming, templating etc. in this myself.
>> Advantages: platform independent and free.
>
> Lilypond is not TeX-based
Well, not
12. Juni 2019 19:26, "ah" schrieb:
> ...
>
> And also whether there will be lots and lots of symbol libraries for him
> to choose from?
>
There are essentially *no* native symbol libraries available, but that should
not disturb you too much. You can instead
- use any glyphs from any system-i
12. Juni 2019 19:49, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca schrieb:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, ah wrote:
>
>> ... using a TeX-based or TeX-like (free) music composition system, if
>> available and doing all programming, templating etc. in this myself.
>> Advantages: platform independent and free.
>
> Lilypond is
On 6/12/2019 11:08 AM, ah wrote:
The main reason is that he is into modern, avant-garde music and the
notation on his current system is just not there yet or what's offered
does not satisfy him. He is a professional music composer.
I recommend searching lilypond-user list archives for posts by
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, ah wrote:
> ... using a TeX-based or TeX-like (free) music composition system, if
> available and doing all programming, templating etc. in this myself.
> Advantages: platform independent and free.
Lilypond is not TeX-based nor conceptually TeX-like, despite the fact that
it u
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