On 13 March 2012 11:44, James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com> wrote: > At Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:14:02 -0400, > lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: >> Impressive! Can you now create scores as quickly as you used to in >> Finale?
I think I can now... I’ve been using Lilypond for about six months now and like James I enjoy spending a lot less time tweaking, especially page layout. Frescobaldi is great, even though I don’t use many of its features. I have found that musicxml2ly requires too much tweaking to be worth moving existing Finale projects over (yet???). If you have a bit of a programming background you’ll appreciate being able to manipulate a text file with regexes. > 2) Are there any features in Finale (or Sibelius or any other scorewriter > with a GUI) that you wish you had in LilyPond? Finale does automatic word extensions for lyrics. I also wrote myself a kludgy program that emulated (and improved on) Finale’s Speedy Note Entry. Finale’s MIDI playback is more immediate (and I can’t for the life of me get PortMidi working on my Mac for Frescobaldi playback), but I only use MIDI for error-checking at the end so it’s not a big deal for me. Vaughan _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
