Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

[Carl Sorensen]

On 5/8/12 8:27 AM, "joannesmith" <address@hidden> 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.

Please check out the fasoli group.  They have lots of experience in shape
notes with lilypond.

<http://www.hosorembo.com/Lily/Lilindex.html>


<http://groups.google.com/group/fasoli?hl=en&pli=1>

HTH,

Carl