[Menvi-discuss] My first mail

[Ella Yu]

Hi, I have not used Lilypond personally, but I agree with Bruce's thoughts.
Lilypond is accessible because it is a completely text-based system, but
you kinda have to think like a coder, so it is not intuitive. If you want
to notate music in notation software, learning something like MuseScore
(which is also very accessible) would be far more efficient.

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 8:36 PM Bruce Maguire via Menvi-discuss <
menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:

> Hello Siddarth
>
> Welcome to the list. I haven't used Lillypond extensively, but I did a bit
> of experimenting with it earlier this year as part of my search for an
> accessible and accurate way of getting my musical compositions out of my
> head and on to the page with a view to sharing them. Because Lillypond is
> text-based (a bit like LaTeX in the maths world) it's potentially very
> accessible, but you have to be comfortable with thinking symbolically and
> applying rules to construct musical notes from their individual elements
> (pitch, duration, etc.). One significant limitation with Lillypond is that
> you can't export its notation to other formats like MusicXML, unless there
> have been recent changes that I'm not aware of. You can, however, print
> scores as pdf files, and you can share the notation files that contain the
> text with other Lillypond users, but overall it's a fairly closed system.
> That might be fine of course, depending on what you want to do with it.
>
> Best wishes
> Bruce
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Siddharth
> Keshri via Menvi-discuss
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 3:13 PM
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> Cc: Siddharth Keshri <siddhkesh at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Menvi-discuss] My first mail
>
> Hello friends,
> I am Siddharth Kumar Keshri from India. I like to play flute and keyboard.
> Friends, I have a question regarding Lilypond music software. Does anyone
> from this list use it? If yes, then kindly share your experience regarding
> its accessibility. I am asking this question, because on their website
> called lilypond.org, they have mentioned, that some Visually Impaired
> people
> also use this software; as it is a text based application.
> --
> With warm regards
> Siddharth Kumar Keshri
>
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