Hi There,
after almost one year of frantic development I'm happy to announce a
usable alpha-release of Frescobaldi 2.0 (version 1.9.0).
https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi (click Download)
Frescobaldi is a dedicated LilyPond sheet-music editor with built-in
PDF preview.
Frescobaldi 2.0 is not depending on KDE anymore and can run on Windows
(needs packaging of poppler-qt4 python binding), Mac OS X and Linux. It
uses Python, PyQt4 and Poppler (for the PDF preview).
Most features of Frescobaldi 1.x are available, except for Rumor
support. MIDI input and output will probably be implemented using
PortMIDI and merged into Frescobaldi later in the 2.0 line.
I have imported all translations from Frescobaldi 1.x. Of course there
are also some new strings which can be translated.
What's new:
- very robust LilyPond parser that also understands HTML, TexInfo, etc.
with embedded LilyPond. It also powers the syntaxis coloring.
- PDF preview with smart, two-way, point and click (you can change the
document and the links still point to the correct notes). Can also
highlight objects in the PDF while the cursor is moving in the text.
- magnifier (Ctrl-Click in PDF preview)
- fully rewritten snippet manager can also run Python scripts and has
lots of intelligent functions to make flexible insert commands that
can be put in the Insert menu and have keyboard shortcuts
- built-in User Guide
- multiple movement/score support in Score Wizard
- multiple/split editor views
This is an alpha-release, but testing is very welcome.
Enjoy,
Wilbert Berendsen