Shane Brandes<address@hidden> writes:
The most curious thing about the whole situation was the editor I
spoke with who was pretty enthusiastic and a supporter of my endeavors
was also very proud of the fact that he had originally gotten his
music published because of his exceptionally clean hand. That amused
me since there is no way a hand written score could compete with the
output that is now possible,
I disagree. You can capture subtleties of phrasing and meaning into a
handwritten and/or a hand-engraved score that a computer engraver can't
mimic because the information/understanding is just not there. Computer
output tends to score better in a number of categories over manual work,
and score rather awful in categories you did not think of as being even
relevant because "nobody would do that".