Re: website so close, and yet so far

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:54:02PM +0100, Ian Hulin wrote:
>> Graham Percival wrote:
>>>   Apparently, nobody knows what Denemo is.  (or else nobody can be
>>>   arsed to send me a bloody two-sentence description)
>>
>> (From www.denemo.org)
>>
>> Denemo is a music notation program for Linux and Windows that lets you  
>> rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver.  
>> Music can be typed in at the PC-Keyboard, or played in via MIDI  
>> controller, or input acoustically into a microphone plugged into your  
>> computer's soundcard.
>>
>> Denemo itself does not engrave the music for printout - it uses LilyPond  
>> which generates beautiful sheet music to the highest publishing  
>> standards. Denemo just displays the staffs in a slim and efficient way,  
>> so you can enter and edit the music efficiently.
>>
>> My bit:
>> Denemo is a wisiwig front-end editing program for generating Lilypond  
>> scores.
>
> Hmm.   Could you edit this down to 2-3 sentences?  I'd like it to
> fit with the rest of the page.  It might be good to play up the
> WYSIWYG / gui  aspect, to contrast it with the other editors?

It is not WYSIWYG at all.  It is what LyX calls "WYSIWYM" (what you see
is what you mean), namely giving a readable approximation of the output.

> In an ideal world, I'd like to have a sentence or half-sentence about
> why we don't all use denemo -- I mean, the major problem with lilypond
> (from a beginner's point of view) is the text-only input.  Maybe add
> something about the limited functionality, lack of
> tweaking... whatever it is that makes lilypondtool / frescobaldi / etc
> a worthwhile alternative?

Denemo saves its files in its own file format and merely exports to
Lilypond.  It is not able to import most Lilypond files written by other
means which can be a problem if hand-writing Lilypond code is part of
the project workflow (because of individual problem solutions or
external contributors).  It also works quite worse with version control
systems than hand-written input.

-- 
David Kastrup