Many thanks!

[Don Ravey]

It's been a long time since I've used list servers, I hope I'm 
responding correctly.

I'm blown away at the rapid and very helpful response I got to my 
question.  Dominic, Jonathan and Brett:  your comments and advice are 
much appreciated!

I downloaded what I thought was the latest stable version, but I will 
now upgrade.

Yes, the opening bar should have been for the left hand, I just got so 
confused with the notation that I couldn't figure out how to do it (and 
I was concentrating on preventing the crashes).  If you think that 
looked funny, you should have seen some of the other bizarre things I 
produced!

You know, I had played around with the uppercase characters in 
PianoStaff, trying pianostaff (which it didn't recognize, but at least 
it didn't crash!) and Pianostaff--the one I didn't try was pianoStaff!  
However, now it seems to be accepting PianoStaff, which is, after all, 
what the Manual shows.

I do a lot of programming, including database (SQL etc.), and have done 
so for many, many years (don't ask!), and I've been an amateur musician 
for well over a half century, but I'm having a tough time getting the 
hang of this notation.  But I've only been trying to learn for a couple 
of days--I'll get there!

Thanks for your help!  I'm sure I'll ask more questions.

Don Ravey
http://ravey.net