I really wish I could just pipe finale files to it and have lilypond make it not suck.
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why is this not possible? Have the program read the "notes" from the finale file, format them into the lillypad format, and have its compiler spit the beautified version back out to you.
This would be the equivilent of building a "quick preview gui" for lillypad.
The point here is that grouping matters moreso than a simple stream of notes. If you just grab the notes as a stream (this is what happened to me the first time I used lilypond) you lose some of the control over what is considered voices.
http://www.robertames.com/blog.cgi/entries/nexus-of-etude.ht...
http://www.robertames.com/files/nexus-of-etude/etude.ly
My mistake that I realize now is that I should have used a concept of "voices" to strictly separate the melody from the bass-line.
See here as a contrast from somebody who is muuuuch better at lilypond than me and didn't start with a gui frontend.
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/GiulianiM/O1/Etude4/Etude4...
Relevant section is:
\score { { << \new Staff = "giuliani-opus1" << \global \new Voice = "voix1" { \soprano } \new Voice = "voix2" { \basse } >> >> }
Compared to my amateur:
\score { << \VoiceI >>
...so the stream of notes is ~lossy~ compared to musically knowing that you're layering a repeating melody on top of a bass-line, or occasionally punctuating a melody with chords.