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--- Immanuel Litzroth  wrote: >

Mikhail Ramendik  writes:

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>

> > Hello,

>

> > Any sort of alphabetic medium for typesetting

> notes is about as "right"

> > for a professional musician as it would be "right"

> for a programmer to

> > somehow write programs in the language of musical

> score. So Lilyopnd is

> > simply off track.

> Can you explain why and "alphabetic medium" is not

> "right"?

>

> > The success of TeX for formula editing came, I

> think, from the fact that

> > TeX somehow matches the way a scientist *thinks*

> about a formula. But

> > IMHO, neither Lilypond nor any other alphabetic

> editor can approach the

> > way a musician thinks about score! And that's why

> this won't work.

> Can you explain how a musician thinks about a score,

> and how this cannot be

> expressed in alphabetic editor?

> Immanuel

>

>  I'm not sure I follow Mikhail's argument, but for

the record, I am a working musician and I use PMW

(Philip's Music Writer) - a typesetting programme

similar to Lilypond.  I've tried many programmes, and

I  find coding (particularly with PMW) to be far more

intuitive and versatile than the pointy-clicky

commercial programmes.  

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