Re: LilyPond learning curve (was: feasibilty question: simple GUI for web-based Lilypond instance)

[Martín Rincón Botero]

I wonder if you realise that you do not have to look at "Denemo's GUI"

- that is, you can set all of the menus, palettes etc hidden and just

use the pc keyboard and a MIDI keyboard to enter notes, rests etc and

then press a key to export the LilyPond syntax for the part you just

entered.

I didn’t know that. I guess I’ll try that later, although without palettes I fail to imagine what the “GUI experience” would be.

The third factor is that there’s a large class of mistakes that you simply could not make in Finale or Sibelius: mismatched braces, beams or slurs that you forget to close, notes entered in the wrong octave, etc.

Oh, yes. That’s a huge factor as well. GUIs really do a great job at preventing you from making so many mistakes. 

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On 25. Oct 2020, 18:02 +0100, Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com>, wrote:

I wonder if you realise that you do not have to look at "Denemo's GUI"
- that is, you can set all of the menus, palettes etc hidden and just
use the pc keyboard and a MIDI keyboard to enter notes, rests etc and
then press a key to export the LilyPond syntax for the part you just
entered.