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 suggested lilypond. I appreciate all > that lilypond can do, but I find that it is taking a painful amount of > time!!!! > ... > So my question ... maybe there is another program that will better suite > my needs?? Or maybe there is someone here that is really good at entering > a variety of hymns into lilypond and would be willing to help me every now > and then??? ... >
Yes, my experience is, the syntax of lilypond is some ugly to new users. But thats the same with every programming language. And lilypond is more like a programming language (compiler), and absolutely not a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get interactive application with graphic user interface. At the beginning I thought to use one of these GUI programms which can export a LY file. But the ones I tried were not compatible with my old operating system version I used at this time. So I cannot recommend one, either. Today I expect for retyping a page of a full size orchestral part (which is larger than DIN A4 resp. LETTER sheetsize) approx. one and a half hour, including visual check and obtaining two differently transposed reprints. Writing by hand would need the same time, but then I would only have on transposition of it. Today I like lilypond for several features: + associativity (one part, one place to put corrections in, corrected where ever it is used) + stabiliy + expandability (e.g. \prall with an alteration above, which is automatically adapted when you transpose it, e. g. form A-clarinet to Bflat-clarinet) + good (very good) readabily of the result + very littly (often none) adjustments required to recieve a good readable print Well, I know, entering the music on the computer keyboard is some time consuming. One of the projects I'm working at the moment is a collection of 22 dances, 16 instrument parts existing (available), one additional instrument part has to be re-created when the score of the single piece is complete, many alternate parts (transpositions, other clefs) have to be generated. Only one quarter is done until now. I expect to complete in within a total period of one or two years, because other tasks with higher priority interrupt my work, and I failed to motivate other people to (try to) enter the voices they need transposed into a lilypond file thus I would only need to do correction, final touches, and what they marked "I don't know how to do this, there". Sorry, but I wont help you typing your songs. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Too-complicated-and-time-consuming-...-tp33763582p33763662.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
