Kimberly Depatie asked a question on another thread that deserves its own thread. [, and then use the link supplied at the end of the thread to come back.] My response: I use OpenOffice.org Writer with the Meinrad fonts I purchased from St. ![]() Meinrad Abbey four years ago to create the PDF (OpenOffice.org has a built-in export-to-PDF option). On a related note, I'm currently looking at two open-source chant notation programs to use on my Linux installation: and. I haven't really researched their compatibility with Windows or Macintosh, but I suspect they're compatible. Prepare to learn about a command-line interface and code-based input - neither has a graphical user interface. However, the developers of Gregorio plan on making that a reality for Linux. I can tell you that the initial learning curve is somewhat steep - I'm only less than a day into my research. Once I have everything resolved, though, I plan on writing an article for others to help avoid the mistakes I'm making now. It would be frankly wonderful to have an online database of the entire corpus of Gregorian chant in these compact gabc, TeX or XML files; this would allow end-users the ability to prepare customized scores (and even volumes) of chant for their communities. Lilypond is a good program (works on Windows, Linux, Mac) for round-notes, and they have a square note feature but I haven't had the time to work with it yet and I hear that it is a bit buggy. It does not use a graphic interface; you have to program everything with a text editor and then run it through the command line for PDF and/or graphic output. But honestly you can't beat the price for these programs as compared with Finale, and once you get used to the programming aspect -- which isn't too difficult if you patiently trudge through it -- I think you will find that the program is easier and more efficient that Finale. The Gregoire program that someone spoke about (the French gregorian one that is very buggy) is nice and I find it easier to use than the Meinrad font. I could never figure out how to judge the space that I should place between neumes with the Meinrad font in order then to put the text in below it. It's too time intensive. Gregoire makes the text-entry part a lot easier but it also has a tendency to crash (although I seem to recall having figured out what triggers the crash and how to avoid it) and the graphic output that it produces is tedious (as I recall it saves each staff as a separate graphic file and then dumps then into a Word doc, then you have to mess around with the spacing). Really, though, some Catholic computer/music geeks really need to get on the ball and make a program (perhaps one that supports both command-line and GUI) that handles both round and square notes with ease and efficiency, with both PDF and hi-res graphic output, and good-quality note engraving. It's about time! Hopefully we will not have to wait too much longer. Notes on the Use of this Page Scope of the Program. This program can convert dates from 1252 March 13 to 2164 March 19 C.E. From Gregorian notation to Ecliptic. Program defaults. Default Document. Chant notation. If you are transcribing early music, such as Gregorian square notation or Italian mixed notation. Gregorian notation was designed primarily to commit to paper the sacred chants of the beginning of the second millennium. The scale used is, in modern notes: C, D, E.
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