Re: The composition process doesn't get disrupted using Lily Pond?

[Malte Meyn]

Hi Yakir,

Am 30.12.18 um 18:28 schrieb Yakir Arbib:
> Can anyone here who is a composer and uses LilyPond to compose give me
> some little insight about the process?

I’m not a professional composer but I use LilyPond to do my composing 
homework for university ;)

> I mean if you are composing for more than one stave (I.E. piano and
> cello or string quartet) how do you keep track of the music if each
> stave has to be coded separately?

I use Frescobaldi (http://frescobaldi.org) which shows the resulting PDF 
on one half of the screen. There I can click on any note to get to the 
corresponding place in the LilyPond code. That’s probably not an option 
for you, is it? But there are other techniques that might help you:

Many people write exactly one measure per line, use bar checks (the 
symbol | that checks whether there is a bar line where you expect it), 
write a bar number comment every 5 bars etc.

I know that there are several blind composers who use LilyPond and I 
also transcribed a piano piece some time ago for a blind pianist who 
used the LilyPond code to learn to play that piece. So LilyPond seems to 
be a appropriate tool for those people. Of course, I’m not an expert in 
that matter.

Happy New Year to you too!
Malte