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Diving into the Lilypond

A few months ago I wrote a blog post enthusing over my newfound plain text/markdown workflows and touched on a musical counterpart with a description of my first encounters with Lilypond notation software. I thought that it might be worthwhile to write a little more about my own experiences with getting started with Lilypond in the hope that this might be useful to others interested in following a similar path.

Surface Tension

What you see and what you get.

For the past year and a half, ever since I started using iA Writer as my main writing tool, I’ve really gotten into using Markdown as a means of formatting documents, both for my website and elsewhere.