Re: Too complicated and time consuming ...

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi Joanne,

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:27 PM, 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.
> So my question ... maybe there is another program that will better suite my
> needs?? Or maybe there is someone here that is really good at entering a
> variety of hymns into lilypond and would be willing to help me every now and
> then??

You can always ask questions on this mailing list.  If you spend at
least 15 minutes searching for a solution yourself (in manuals and
mailing list archives) and give your e-mail a descriptive subject,
chances are high that you'll get an answer within a day (sometimes a
lot faster).

I could help a bit, too.  Could you say something more about your project?
- how many hymns have you entered?  Could you send the sources of the
ones which caused most problems?
- is this your first LilyPond project?
- did you try to use Frescobaldi?

hope this helps,
Janek