Version control works best with plain text files that the users edit directly, themselves. Though MuseScore doesn't use a text-based markup language like Lilypond, it has many other benefits over the. When I started composing a few piano and small ensemble pieces, I could have handled these in Denemo, but I decided to try MuseScore to compare the programs.
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They also offer an easy way to back up your progress, via free services like Github (git only), or bitbucket (git & mercurial). Denemo served me well when creating my songbook, but I had greater ambitions. Version control acts like a sort of uber-undo that lets you take snapshots of your progress over the entire course of your project. Most well-known is a system called Git, but I personally recommend using Mercurial. They’ve also been around for a long time and had many eyes to search for bugs and many hands to add even very obscure features. Most plain-text-source systems (including LilyPond and LaTeX) are open source and have open-source licensing, making them much easier to share. I guess you could muck around in the output, but I doubt you’re meant to be able to very easily. It’ll still misbehave, but you’ll be able to figure out what’s wrong. Often, in WYSIWYG, there’s more than one way to get the same results, but then the built-in tools for making changes only affect certain locations where those choices have been effected a certain way.Ī plain-text file cannot get unfixably corrupted, or misbehave mysteriously. With a WYSIWYG editor, I’m always a little worried I’ve left behind something like a single space that happens to be italicized, or something.Īlso, deliberate formatting in a plain text source makes your intentions totally unambiguous. Plain-text-source systems make it impossible to miss or forget subtle formatting decisions and leftover, empty formatting tags. I’m a big fan of things like LilyPond and LaTeX I recently transcribed a song my dad wrote for guitar using LilyPond.
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