Hi Carl!
>> My music entry is done 99% by MIDI input, so I type almost no commas or apostrophes.
> Can you tell me how you do your MIDI input? I'd like to do that, but I don't have a good workflow for it.
1. I use Frescobaldi.
Wow. I missed this somehow. I can see why you use absolute values exclusively, Kieren. I'm almost exclusively transcribing and transposing fiddle tunes. I do a lot of entry from sheet music, and do a lot of proofreading, then transposing. Not terribly complicated, but valuable to me. Relative entry works much better for me than absolute entry. I can input the tune in treble clef, proofread it, and transpose to alto clef with fewer than 10 keystrokes.
All the best,
Ralph