Re: Installing on Ubuntu Studio

[Andrew Bernard]

Hi Marcelo,

I see. The so called GUI on the mac is just LilyPad, a very crude basic text editor which also allows you to run the lilypond command. It can hardly be described as a GUI platform for lilypond.

This tool is not available on Linux systems precisely because Linux users have a superabundance of powerful text editors available to them such as emacs, vi, and gedit and things like Atom nowadays. Using emacs and the command line on linux is a fast, powerful and effective way of working. Urs Liska has written extensively on the power and advantage of a full text based workflow for engraving.

As far as Frescobaldi goes, it is difficult to imagine anybody objecting to it. It offers a reasonable text editor, but more importantly point and click in the PDF which takes you directly to the location in the source code file that produced that object (which by the way you can still do with emacs and so on anyway,s ince that is a lilypond feature and not a Frescobaldi one). Also, highlighting source code allows you to jump to tha point in the score immediately. I prodcude extraordinarily dense scores for colleagues of the New Complexity School, and without Frescobaldi I would be utterly lost.

Hope this my be useful.

Andrew

On 5 July 2016 at 9:36:00 PM, Marcelo Carneiro de Lima (address@hidden) wrote:

Thanks for the reply. When I say "Gui" I mean the same interface I have on Mac OS, for instance. I mean the possibility to work directly on Lilipond without Frescobaldi or Denemo, writing code on Lilypond's own text editor and compiling it in Lilypond as well. When I downloaded Lilipond for Linux and installed it, no icon for launch the software appears, no direct access to it, just by Frescobaldi. So, I cannot work only with Lilypond's software, I have to use others, like Denemo and Frescobaldi. Instead of the 'pond' icon, like when I installed it on Mac, I have...nothing.