Re: GUI for Lilypond

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Erik Sandberg wrote:

> On Monday 13 September 2004 12.32, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > I think it is not reasonable to embed LilyPond's render engine into a
> > WYSIYWG system: It takes much too long to produce nice output.
> At least with today's state. I have been thinking about this issue - and in
> theory I think it could be possible to some extent; an editor could use a
> primitive engine to do an initial guess of the layout, and internally run
> lilypond now and then to adjust the layout to look better. It's not a pure
> WYSIWYG, but it's a bit closer at least.

I am quite comfortable to first input the music (by whatever means), and
then finishing of the layout by point-and-click.

Ciao,
Dscho