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If you would like to be a part of this project to write a Creative Commons music theory book, please reply here or send me a private message. Although I would love to employ you, this will be purely voluntary. Your name will come on the list of contributing authors. That's about all.

I think Lyx is the best option. I have made an example of use with jedit and lilypond. You can see how easy it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SdfzM-lVEk And the best of it, the support that you can find in lyx documentation, and lyx user groups. One problem, one google search, that's all. Than...

I have finally made my decision! I have thought about all your comments, and decided against using a Wiki. Thus, I will be using LyX to write the content, using Lilypond and Lilypond-book to insert the notation inside the LaTeX output. I have not yet decided where to host the files yest, whether loc...

I have narrowed it down to two possible solutions: 1. Edit in LyX, with some sort of SVN revision management It sounds a bit crazy to me, but treating the book like a software project, hosted on something like Launchpad, may actually work. Instead of files containing code, of course, the files conta...

So, I have had some time to think, and I have had an idea (probably ill-advised) based on editing the content in a Wiki. The content is edited in a Wiki, chapter by chapter, and then exported in some form (like XML?) to be further edited and combined in e.g. LyX. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He...

Thanks for the lively discussion everyone! I'm not kidding when I say that your input is really insightful! Time for a little bit of feedback from my side: For publishable content tools like LaTeX and, sometimes, OpenOffice.org are great although the LilyPond integration can be tricky. My thoughts e...

Does anyone know if it is possible to implement all the same LaTeX markup and classes in LyX? I will ask around, and even try it out, but if you take a look at the following page... http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-program/LaTeX ...you can see that it is possible to include ...

@raboof: Thanks for the input! I understand what you're saying, and I guess that you administer/contribute to that music theory WikiBook? The thing is, I am looking at what is probably the same problem from another point of view: I would like to create a publishable result, with all sorts of aesthe...

I have read a bit on various blogs and internet posts, and have come down to the three most feasible options at this stage: LyX with some sort of <music> class or Lilypond input, as implemented here on WikiTeX Lilypond-book (not so desirable) OpenOffice.org with the Lilypond plugin All of the above ...

Thanks for the great input, everyone! Here are my replies: @raboof and @Pablo: I have thought a lot about using LaTeX, or even something like LyX, but if I want to get some of the local people involved, I'm a bit worried about the learning curve. That doesn't mean, however, that I will forget it imm...

Hi there! I know I haven't been on Linuxmusicians.com for about 6 months now, so I'm sorry, and I can't tell you enough about how good it is to be back! I have found the free / public domain / Creative Commons books on music theory to be somewhat lacking in comparison to the ones that can be bought....

All the way from the land of Top Gear? Welcome to the forum! Can't wait to hear your music...

Great to have you here! You will be pleasantly surprised at the high quality free software available!

Welcome!

Hey Andrew!

Welcome! Please join in and post links to some music you may have written! I would love to hear some, and also, why not listen to some of the stuff other people wrote!

Etienne

Welcome! Please post some links to any music you may have written, I'm sure we would all love to hear the type of music you write and have written!

I hope you find a good home here!