Lilypond is nice, but its input language is (very powerful but) a bit clumsy and verbose. Others who feel the same way might want to take a look at PMW (http://

Lilypond is nice, but its input language is (very powerful but) a bit clumsy and verbose. Others who feel the same way might want to take a look at PMW (http://www.quercite.com/pmw.html http://www.quercite.com/pmw.html) which also produces high-quality PostScript output and has a more friendly syntax. Its author, Philip Hazel, is better known for the Exim mail transfer agent and the PCRE regexp library.