Why do we need score editors?

When did you write something with a pen and a simple piece of paper? Did you write a mail to your friend last year? Maybe last decade? No? Me too. But believe me, I know so many people that still write scores with a pen and a piece of paper. So maybe there is a difference between a music text and a simple text written in Latin alphabet? Is there any? Let's have a look.

In classical alphabet we have some characteres, we combine them into words. With words we build  sentences, then some paragraphs. Finally pages and a whole composition. We simply begin in the upper left corner and continue to the right. And again and again left-to-right. This is very easy. So what makes computer better? I think that there are two things:

1. Backspace key.
2. Easy copy-paste mechanism (as well as the backup possibility)

Let's forget about skills (yes, we live in the 20th century, but still for some people writing on a computer keyboard is not such obvious skill). Let's also forget about money (at least once!).

If so - is musical alphabet harder to be put into computer? I guess it's not. I've written some piece of music on a sheet of paper so many times. So many times I've had problems with inserting the missing note somewhere between. Reading it back was also a problem. And it's an ugly style. It always lookes like a 3-year-old baby writing task. Today I use a free score editor Capriccio (which is avaible under www.cdefgabc.com). It may be installed and used offline, but can also be used online on every PC without installation. It places all the tacts really nicely. It prints great, plays my compositions, exports to pdf. Is there anything I need more?

I have to say this will be an open question for me forever . I've seen so many scores that I had to improvise, because I simply wasn't able to read them.

Last week I got about 30 pages of music. All pages were handwritten. Many crosses, notes that couldn't be really read. I sat down, looked at it and there only one short question  kept revolving around in my brain: "WHY???"