A composer of the past would surely have been delighted to have a tool 
like Lilypond to format finished works. But would Bach have developed 
invertible fugues with it?  Maybe a sculptor needs to see the evolving 
stone for inspiration? Likely, a painter needs a canvas rather than a 
formal specification? In the mid-Eighties I wrote my doctoral thesis at 
a WYSIWYG editor without recourse to paper, developing the maths by 
meditating on the screen. A few years later the whole thing had to be 
reformatted in LaTex for a book publisher. There’s no way I would have 
chosen to manipulate equations in that ungainly format. So Lilypond is 
presumably a boon for publishing, but probably inferior to a sheet of 
paper when it comes to composition and arranging.


On 25/01/2017 21:03, Thomas Dent wrote:
> I use the Lilypond music typesetting program (a descendant of TeX) with a
> browser/editor called 'Frescobaldi' .. it's rather similar to writing some
> sorts of computer program, ie definitely not WYSIWYG.  However you can
> control virtually every aspect of the output if you look far enough into
> the examples.

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