POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : XKCD for the win : Re: XKCD for the win Server Time
6 Sep 2024 01:25:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: XKCD for the win  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 29 May 2009 13:05:02
Message: <4a2015be$1@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 29 May 2009 16:53:44 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> (Much like, logically, there must exist software for the PC that
>>> enables you to typeset music property, but I've yet to find it. Unless
>>> you count all those insane TeX extensions...)
>> 
>> What is wrong with (La)TeX? I mean other then you did not really try it
>> because it has a learning curve?
> 
> TeX is very good for its intended purpose - typesetting text and
> mathematics. And it *not* very good for anything else. (Most especially,
> trying to typeset musical scores with it just simply *painful*.)

There are a few programs for Linux that do a good job with this - 
Lilypond IIRC does a good job with it.

Jim


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