Kimberly Depatie asked a question on another thread that deserves its own thread.
[Go there to see the initial inquiry, 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: Gregorio and OpusTex. 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.
[Go there to see the initial inquiry, 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: Gregorio and OpusTex. 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.