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One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand. LilyPond is cross-platform, and is available for several common operating systems; released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, LilyPond is free software and part of the GNU ...
Frescobaldi is an editor for LilyPond music files. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is free software, freely available under the GNU General Public License. It is designed to run on all major operating systems (Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows).
[3] [4] LilyPond 1.0 was released on 31 July 1998, highlighting the development of a custom music font, Feta, and the complete separation of LilyPond from MusiXTeX. [ 5 ] PMX is a preprocessor for MusiXTeX written by Don Simons.
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It has been proposed on the mailing list that essentially the same technique used with TeX be used to implement embedded GNU LilyPond markup in articles, presumably in <music> </music> tags. This will then be able to be upgraded to generate music markup, MIDI files, Ogg Vorbis files, et caetera later on.
Similar to LilyPond it does not provide a graphical user interface. The notation is done via simple text input. It follows the gabc-syntax, which is defined by the Gregorio Project for this purpose. The gregorio command line tool converts this gabc-file to a GregorioTeX file, which has to be included in a common TeX file.
Wikipedia editors may also create MIDI files by putting music score code in Lilypond or ABC format in the text of Wikipedia articles, which the Score extension code turns into MIDI. For example, this notation (of a simplified version of Solfeggietto in C minor by C.P.E. Bach):
Notion supports composition using a computer keyboard/mouse, MIDI keyboard, MIDI guitar, MIDI file, MusicXML file, or handwriting recognition. [5] [6] It automatically handles aspects of music notation such as stem direction and alignment of rhythmic values, [7] and supports the input and output of notation in tablature form, synchronized with the standard music notation.