a *very* odd question especially for me.

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi thanks for these.
will have to check out your own suggestion.
I have the lillypond manual, downloaded it sometime back.  A middle ground 
will be welcome, but I am 100% not a windows user.
Of course a dos compile would rock my universe.   If not an option, then I 
am either left  constructing just enough of a Linux box for my work, the 
question that started this thread,  or perhaps a mac option, which I would 
rather not do,  unless really necessary.
thanks again,
Kare


On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Peter Billam wrote:

> Hi.  Karen wrote:
>> but as you say manually putting all the parts into lillypond
>> may have its drawbacks.
>
> I'm sorry if I gave that impression; I would never want to imply that.
> Lilypond is the best, there's nothing it can't do.
> And for robustness and longevity,
> just check out the size of their development team, at the bottom of:
>  http://lilypond.org/
> The introductory manuals are at, for example:
>  http://lilypond.org/text-input.html
>  http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/index.htm
> but those pages are not very accessible, unfortunately :-(
>
>> abc notation comes  with packages that might a low the audio
>> say one track at a time to be converted into their program ...
>> Are you aware of this package?
>
> Oh, sure:
>  http://abcnotation.com/
> If you're writing in the single line, it is absolutely The Standard,
> because (given that restriction) it's ultra-easy to use,
> very very compact and readable.
>
> Muscript, which I use all the time:
>  http://www.pjb.com.au/muscript/index.html
> lies between lilypond and abc; it has most of the flexibility
> of lilypond, and most of the simplicity of abc.
>
> They all use text-input, very accessible :-)
>
> ( They all run on windows too, eg:
>  http://lilypond.org/download.html
>  http://abcnotation.com/software
> though to run muscript on windows you need to install Perl, or cygwin
>  https://www.cygwin.com
>
> Once your score is in muscript form,
> there's really no need to convert it into anything else.
> Once your score is in lilypond form,
> there's _absolutely_ no need to convert it into anything else :-)
>
> Regards,  Peter Billam
>
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