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

[Johan Vromans]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:

> That's why I like to differentiate between inputting and tweaking.
> Inputting is probably much, much faster using the keyboard. [...]
> 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.

My workflow is to produce the LP source using text tools (editors,
converters), then use Frescobaldi to fix notes, ties, slurs and other
typical (at least for me) input errors, and then back to text mode for
the final tweaking.

So for me its a best of both worlds.

-- Johan