On 28.09.25 12:56, Hajo Bäß wrote:
First I use (as a longtime Frescobaldi user) many home-made hotkeys for all kinds of stupid things like certain markups, slurs, ties, beams, whole templates, repeats and much more with the cursor already in the right place.
I believe you mean what Frescobaldi calls Snippets (with custom keyboard shortcuts), right? I haven’t ended up integrating them into my workflow aside from a very few that I click manually when I need them, but that doesn’t say much except about me.
Secondly I have come to appreciate a text expander - espanso - where you can define all kinds of triggers for the same things. Thus with three, four keystrokes you can get whatever you want in LilyPond code, and you only have to fill in the notes or modify a template for a new project.
Interesting. I believe I don’t have any pressure to move to such a tool because the neo keyboard layout <neo-layout.org> makes all the special characters needed so conveniently reachable. But again, that’s something highly idiosyncratic.
Best, Simon
