Hi Joanne, On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:27 PM, joannesmith <joannesmith6...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello to all. > We are in the process of making our own hymn books (we use shape notes). We > have about 450 hymns that are in paper format right now (copied, pasted, > written on, sloppy, taped, marked, etc.) and I have the job of making them > all look nice. A friend suggested lilypond. I appreciate all that lilypond > can do, but I find that it is taking a painful amount of time!!!! The hymns > are not all the same ... and some are really complicated [for me anyway]. > The easy ones only take me about 20 minutes or so, however the hard ones can > take more than 3 hours and some I have just given up on for now. Multiply > that by about 450 songs and it is really intimidating to me. > So my question ... maybe there is another program that will better suite my > needs?? Or maybe there is someone here that is really good at entering a > variety of hymns into lilypond and would be willing to help me every now and > then??
You can always ask questions on this mailing list. If you spend at least 15 minutes searching for a solution yourself (in manuals and mailing list archives) and give your e-mail a descriptive subject, chances are high that you'll get an answer within a day (sometimes a lot faster). I could help a bit, too. Could you say something more about your project? - how many hymns have you entered? Could you send the sources of the ones which caused most problems? - is this your first LilyPond project? - did you try to use Frescobaldi? hope this helps, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
