Re: [Sheflug] Editing Music Scores

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheflug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sheflug-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Ibbotson
> Sent: 23 March 2008 11:43
> To: sheflug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Sheflug] Editing Music Scores
> 
> Hmmm...
> 
> One of the lads who has been to quite a few of our meetings keeps
> going on at me about music editing software for the Linux desktop.
> Says he has to use winduhs to edit the music he writes and uses.  I
> think he's a keen classical music fan.  Strangely, this would seem to
> have been taken care of in recent times....
> 
> http://mscore.sourceforge.net/en/idx.php
> 
> I think it's fairly obvious that it's in it's early stages but my own
> version is 0.91 and it just about does what it claims.  Can save in
> PDF and postscript as well as some others.

I've just had a look at some of the screenshots and it bears more than a
passing resemblance to Sibelius in terms of note entry etc. It looks
quite a nice application. I've tried Rosegarden on a couple of occasions
but given up. It's usually caused a race condition when I've used it so
my experiences have been less than positive.

-- 
David

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