POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : XKCD for the win : Re: XKCD for the win Server Time
6 Sep 2024 01:27:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: XKCD for the win  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 29 May 2009 15:16:17
Message: <4a203481@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> 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.

I think that's what he was talking about.

Lilypond syntax is quite similar to LaTeX...


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