On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi all, > >>> In my experience, LilyPond *is* capable of producing scores of the >>> highest caliber. However, I often spend so much time tweaking the >>> score to get it to look perfect that it really becomes a labor of love. > > I used Finale for over a decade, eventually becoming the computer music lab > tutor/assistant at Shepherd School of Music (while doing my Master of Music > there) -- I was as nimble with Finale as anyone I knew (know). I estimate > that, for me, note entry is ca. 3x faster in Fin/Sib than Lily, but > tweaking-to-publishable is ca. 10x faster in Lily than Fin/Sib (partly > because there's so much less tweaking to do).
you can have the best of both worlds if you enter using finale and then musicxml2ly to go to .ly and do the typesetting. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
