Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-10 Thread joannesmith
Thank you all for your private emails ... they have been a great encouragement to me. I will probably end up sticking with Lilypond for all the reasons you mentioned. It really does seem like the best option ... I just need to hang in there long enough to get a good grip on it and be patient with

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-10 Thread joannesmith
Ok, one more thing ... most of the responses were probably not private emails??!! I'm still learning this forum as well. Thanks for your patience! joannesmith wrote: Thank you all for your private emails ... they have been a great encouragement to me. -- View this message in context:

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-10 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.05.2012 16:36, schrieb joannesmith: Thank you all for your private emails ... they have been a great encouragement to me. I will probably end up sticking with Lilypond for all the reasons you mentioned. It really does seem like the best option ... I just need to hang in there long enough

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-10 Thread ArnoldTheresius
joannesmith wrote: Hello to all. We are in the process of making our own hymn books (we use shape notes). We have about 450 hymns that are in paper format right now (copied, pasted, written on, sloppy, taped, marked, etc.) and I have the job of making them all look nice. A friend

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-09 Thread Johan Vromans
joannesmith joannesmith6...@gmail.com writes: The easy ones only take me about 20 minutes or so, however the hard ones can take more than 3 hours and some I have just given up on for now. Multiply that by about 450 songs and it is really intimidating to me. So my question ... maybe there is

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
He doesn't even have to copypaste sources. Just save it to an appropriate place and name and include it. Hope the OP is still with us ;-) Best Urs -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet. Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com schrieb: 2012/5/8 Colin Hall

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-09 Thread Janek WarchoĊ‚
Hi Joanne, On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:27 PM, joannesmith joannesmith6...@gmail.com wrote: Hello to all. We are in the process of making our own hymn books (we use shape notes). We have about 450 hymns that are in paper format right now (copied, pasted, written on, sloppy, taped, marked, etc.)

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-08 Thread Colin Hall
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 07:27:11AM -0700, joannesmith wrote: A friend suggested lilypond. I appreciate all that lilypond can do, but I find that it is taking a painful amount of time You might prefer: http://musescore.org/ and I have heard good reports of Noteworthy:

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-08 Thread Urs Liska
Am 08.05.2012 16:27, schrieb joannesmith: Hello to all. We are in the process of making our own hymn books (we use shape notes). We have about 450 hymns that are in paper format right now (copied, pasted, written on, sloppy, taped, marked, etc.) and I have the job of making them all look nice. A

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-08 Thread David Kastrup
joannesmith joannesmith6...@gmail.com writes: We are in the process of making our own hymn books (we use shape notes). We have about 450 hymns that are in paper format right now [...] Of course I am hoping for a somewhat easier program ... clicking and dragging sounds very appealing to me

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-08 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
- Original Message - From: Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 8:12:07 AM Subject: Re: Too complicated and time consuming ... Am 08.05.2012 16:27, schrieb joannesmith: Hello to all. We are in the process of making our own hymn books (we

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-08 Thread Colin Campbell
On 12-05-08 05:51 PM, David Kastrup wrote: joannesmithjoannesmith6...@gmail.com writes: We are in the process of making our own hymn books (we use shape notes). We have about 450 hymns that are in paper format right now [...] Of course I am hoping for a somewhat easier program ... clicking

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-08 Thread Colin Campbell
On 12-05-08 08:29 PM, Colin Campbell wrote: snippage Here is a template I modified, and I apologise to the author of the rehearsalMidi function, as I cannot remember where I found it. Discussion of the template is *so* much easier when it is actually present in the reply! \version

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-08 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/8/12 8:27 AM, joannesmith joannesmith6...@gmail.com wrote: Hello to all. We are in the process of making our own hymn books (we use shape notes). We have about 450 hymns that are in paper format right now (copied, pasted, written on, sloppy, taped, marked, etc.) and I have the job of making

Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

2012-05-08 Thread Urs Liska
And you can/should of course put most of such a template in an include file. So you A) don't duplicate code unnecessarily B) can change the setting and have this be reflected through all your scores and C) have nice small files for the actual piece. Best Urs -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem