Yes, exactly - I mean the Snippets. You do not have to be content with the
default collection. You can add whatever you like.
Your mention of the neo keyboard is very interesting, but this is something I
have never possessed and been able to try out.
It's good that there are many different ways of making your life easier at the
computer or being more productive, and I absolutely appreciate to be able to
hear about ways I did not know before. Everybody also has different
requirements, and you can do such a lot with LilyPond. Some use it for
classical music, some for Gregorian Chant, some for Jazz, some for vocal music
etc. This also can make workflows very different. It's really a Swiss Army
Knife for notation.
Am Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 02:42:00PM +0200 schrieb Simon Albrecht:
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
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