Hi Andrew,<br><br>I use Lilypond very often and I think it&#39;s a great tool for music notation. It contains the possibility to notate ancient and non-western music as well. It&#39;s easy to write reusable templates for different styles of music. The main disadvantage (compared to f.e. Sibelius) is that due to compile time changes of a single note take a lot of time to be visible, especially when also rendering a midi-file. I think that learning the language is not harder than learning to use a GUI-tool. BTW templates/examples are available online. &quot;Lilypond notation reference&quot; (<a href="http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/index">http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/index</a>) will be your friend.<br>
<br>--Funs<br>