Hello. Although I've had lilypond installed since June of 2006, I have
not tried to put anything substantial in there. However, after having
to put together a nice set of good-looking scores of my own composition
for percussion, I've concluded the following: FINALE is awful, and
SIBELIUS is awful, but not as awful as Finale.
Although I was quite reluctant about using lilypond at first, I have
noticed that it's actually much MUCH clearer in regards to input than
either of the programs mentioned above. At the same time, I've found it
to be quite unwieldy when it comes to a few other things, and I sure
could use some help. We'll begin with the very first measure of my
piece for solo glockenspiel:
\time 3/4
r8\mp cis8-> gis''8. cis,,16 b''4->
If you were to input the following into Lilypond, you would find that
it automatically beams the C#3 along with the dotted G#. The idea is to
use a single eighth-note notation for the very first note (cis8->)
and beamed [gis''8. cis,,16] with a lone quarter-note B at the end. I
tried [cis8->] only to find out that it doesn't like this at all.
The second measure features a similar problem, though I'm including
this only due to /relative call in the code. I'd like to ask you an odd
question about measure 4:
Interestingly enough, Finale, Sibelius, -and- Lilypond have issues with
the fourth measure, and none want to display the accidental on the note
prior-to-last (C#). Prior to C#, we have a clearly marked C(natural) as
can be seen here: {<cis' gis'>8.-> <c gis'>16-> ~
<c gis'>8} , yet despite having {cis,16} Lilypond/Finale/Sibeluis
draw C-natural, despite needing C#.
The last comment I wish to make is that the automatic beaming of the
last line is not as pretty on the eyes as it could be: the stems of the
two bottom C#s need to be longer, and I'd appreciate any comments
regarding this from anyone...