[Menvi-discuss] My first mail

[Humberto Avila]

Dear Mr. Keshri,


Welcome aboard to the world of the Musical Educational network for the 
Visually Impaired. My name is Humberto and I, too, play keyboard and 
arrange music with DAW software.


I can answer some of your basic questions regarding the LillyPond 
software, as I have used it myself. What you would do, is write the flat 
text document containing all of your musical notation laying out all the 
codes for the notes, chords, intervals ETC. Such as:

C4 D E F |G A B C

The above code will print out two bars of quarter notes of the C scale. 
All of the code for how to write the notes is fully and accessibly 
explained in their HTML manual and you should receive the manual when 
you install the LillyPond app. But basically you save the code with the 
notes and all that into a text file with the extension .LY, then in File 
Explorer assuming you use Windows, you just press enter on the file and 
LillyPond software does its pretty magic, instantly laying out a .PDF 
file containing a sheet music of your score, and optionally, if you 
specify in the text file in one MIDI command, you have a .MID file that 
you can play back as audio.


Hope all is this helps. by the way, LillyPond as you may have already 
guessed, is fully accessible in that you do the music in a text file, 
and you don't have to interface at all with any app. It is akin to more 
like doing programming rather than manipulating the music graphically or 
visually in  GUI format.


Again hope this helps and let us know if you have any questions. Welcome 
to the list!


Yours in Music,

Humberto

On 12/12/2023 8:12 PM, Siddharth Keshri via Menvi-discuss wrote:
> 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.