Entry and layout
The same content is carried around by hand, and one change shifts the whole page.
Lingxian starts from how guqin jianzipu scores are actually edited, and removes the repetitive labor in entering, laying out, saving, sharing and collaborating.
So that a score can keep being revised, move cleanly between people, and last.
Why
Handwritten scores are hard to revise; general document tools do not understand the structure of jianzipu; and as a score passes between teacher, student and society, versions and comments lose their context.
Lingxian is not meant to replace traditional handbooks, nor to hand every problem to artificial intelligence. It is first of all a tool that understands the structure of a guqin score.
Make the content editable, saveable and traceable first; extend collaboration and intelligence step by step.
The same content is carried around by hand, and one change shifts the whole page.
Where a change came from is unclear, and old drafts cannot be compared with the current one.
A comment needs to anchor reliably to a section, a note and a specific change.
Every product decision is measured against one standard: does it make real notation work more accurate, less effortful and easier to step back from.
Store symbols, fingerings, rhythm and sections as computable data, so editing, validation and version history all rest on one score.
From entry and layout through saving, printing and collaboration, solve first the problems that come up in sequence in one real notation task.
A model understands the request; deterministic tools carry it out. Any change to a score keeps preview, confirmation, verification and undo.
Under construction
Lingxian is built and maintained by one student and is in continuous beta. Features are validated in a narrow scope first, then connected into the full editing flow.