Re: Sibelius user looking for the easiest way to learn LilyPond

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Antonio Gervasoni writes:

> Of course, just typing notes in a keyboard may be faster than inputing them
> with the mouse but the workflow becomes very slow when you have to 
> make all the necessary tweaks to get a nice result. Also, there are lots of
> different expressions and commands and some of them are very complex. 

That's why I like to differentiate between inputting and tweaking.
Inputting is probably much, much faster using the keyboard.  As LilyPond
grows more mature, the idea is that the number of tweaks necessary goes
down.  I'm quite happy that users still choose to us LilyPond even if
for many production quality scores tweaks are still needed.

I'm still not sure what the ideal way of inputting and tweaking would
look like.  The nice thing about text-based tweaks as compared to
GUI-based tweaks, is that text-based tweaks can be saved, documented,
reused, shared and improved; whereas GUI tweaks often can't.

Greetings, Jan

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