If saving the time is at issue, by all means - computer way. I used pen (actually - pencil - much faster) - paper - copier for years and years. To produce a one average 12 stave page simple part with a fair number of 16ths than someone else besides self will be able to read took about 30 minutes. Then i tried a few programs, and went by reducing the time needed, with results improved. The same part on Lilypond takes me now under 5 minutes (no bluffing here, - i have set the keyboard with note names under left fingers and values in the right, and have templates for every possible set-up prepared, just enter the notes). The learning curve (though the improvement never actually stops) to produce the very first good part, was about two - three hours. The advantages are: an immediate redesign of number of pages, sizes, line breaks, bars- no bar lines, ad intinitum, and the whole library of music on a flash drive. Now i just keep a printer in the rehearsal room, and no one complains about my handwriting! alexander
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:43:43 +0000 (GMT) Martyn Hodgson <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > Thank you Eugene, > > I use pen and paper copies now but, since so many collegues seem to be > producing computer set parts these days, thought that using the > appropriate software might not be as time consuming as I feared (I > can't quite believe that it takes less time to enter a note via a > keyboard than by writing it). I might stick to photocopied MS > parts........ > > Martyn > --- On Fri, 13/2/09, Eugene C. Braig IV <brai...@osu.edu> wrote: > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
