> I was just wondering what is it then that you like so much in Finale? You > said both are good, but for different things. What is this thing? Is it that > it is easier to correct typesetting errors in Finale?
Yes, I left most of that discussion for later, but to be brief, Finale's advantages for myself include: - I already know how to do almost everything that I regularly need and have gotten pretty fast, but on LP I'm still a bubmling beginner who has to look stuff up all the time. - For single-note melodic passages, my LilyPond typing skills are only marginally slower than entering the data into Finale by any method, but for piano music with large chords (and especially in keys with many sharps/flats) I am much faster entering a whole chord at time from MIDI keyboard. - Instantly playback (proofread) whatever passage you just entered, not the entire MIDI file - Some multi-staff editing operations are much easier in Finale, e.g. in a score with a dozen staves I want to insert four empty measures after measure 43. - Compatablilty with the rest of the world. I was once able to reduce an hour of orchestral music to an eight piece ensemble without entering any notes because the composer was willing to send me his Finale files. After that experience I will probably never uninstall Finale. Of course, as I begin to understand the best ways to do things in LilyPond it gets easier and easier, but these are some of the hurdles that a recovering Finale user goes through. Cheers, Andrew _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
