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Does anyone know of a good music notation software that is also good with text?

I'm working on a snare book and need something that's good at both.

Tried Musescore, but but it's no good for text. Looked for music plugins for MS Word, but only found windows... putting all this into PDF format is turning out to be the hardest part of the job...

I have written a drumbook (trumskolan) that´s published in Sweden and is doing well

You can do it all in Sibelius..
But the way i did it was do the drumnotation in Sibelius and exported them as graphics from Sibelius.
Then i used Apples Pages and imported the grapichs and did the text with Pages
U can use any graphic desktop program...
If u want to go to a printing house first print to postscript or all kind of PDF hell will break loose..

Best of luck!

Perfect. Thanks for the info.

What do you mean as far as PDF hell though? I guess I don't understand the difference between postscript and PDF.

Could I export the graphics into MS Word instead of Apple Pages?

Thanks!

janne has it - Do your notation in a given notation program. Save it as graphics, jpg, whatever...

Then do your layout in a layout program. InDesign is the best for this.

MS Word would be a VERY poor choice if you are planning on printing. It has very limited layout function, handles graphics poorly and may not even save to a usable format for print houses.