I have always found that nothing beats plain pencil and sheets of staff
paper, until I have the basic piece fairly complete. For me, it's clearly
faster to make even a second draft on paper than to move at that point to
LP and continue from there. I consider fast "hand writing" on staff paper
to be a basic composing skill, long used by those who come before us.

Working this way, alterations are so much easier, in the initial stages.
Later, I find the reverse to be true. I do love getting to the point where
it's time to produce an actual engraved score, but revisions certainly do
continue after that.

Tom

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On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Vaughan McAlley <ockegh...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, 08:08 Nathan Sprangers, <nathan.r.sprang...@maine.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> I've been using lilypond for a much shorter time, but my impression is
>> that lilypond excels when you know exactly what you want to input. It's
>> also difficult to work on different parts of the score unless you set up
>> some sort of system to break the piece into smaller chunks.
>>
>> So I've been doing more work at the piano than I used to, then creating
>> my score in lilypond based on my hand written sketch. Honestly, working at
>> the piano has been more efficient than doing similar work in musescore.
>>
>>
>> On Mar 22, 2018 11:41 AM, "jtruc34" <daverio.jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That may seem like a stupid question, but I've been using LilyPond with
>>> Frescobaldi for a year and a half, but I start to ask myself if it is as
>>> efficient as if I had used another tool like Musescore.
>>>
>>> I explain: I don't have at all a powerful computer, and I think that an
>>> essential feature that I have to have to compose efficiently is to see
>>> what
>>> I've written in real-time. There is such a feature in Frescobaldi name
>>> "continuous engraving" (or something like that, my version is not in
>>> English), but on my slow computer and with a big project such as a
>>> 20-pages
>>> quartet or symphony, it takes at least 40 to 50 seconds to render.
>>>
>>> In addition, it would be great to hear the music out of the midi file by
>>> clicking on the preview (like on almost every WYSIWYG music software) but
>>> Frescobaldi's midi player is pretty useless for that.
>>>
>>> I'm not saying that LilyPond and Frescobaldi are bad, it's probably just
>>> me
>>> who don't know the right tools or the right way to use them. I'm asking
>>> to
>>> find a way to make my workflow more convenient to compose.
>>>
>>> Do you have any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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> It sounds like Denemo might suit you. But like Nathan, I try to be dealing
> with as little technology as possible when I'm actually composing.
> Unfortunately, even pencils need sharpening and erasers need to be
> remembered :-)
>
> Vaughan
>
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