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I still use pencil and paper. In my novice days as a notation software user, my manuscripts needed to be quite clear and precise before I could "engrave" them on the computer, but as my experience with notation software increased and I became more confortable with it, my manuscripts have been degrading into ugly shorthand scribbles of the core ideas. The detailed notation happens on screen, the score is then printed out, checked and marked with pencil and back to the computer. If the music is not very complex I can usually skip the manuscript stage, but overall, I still need to scribble things out first (or at some other stage of the compositon) even if very precariously. Perhaps some day I will be able to dismiss pencil and paper altogether. Composition happens in the head, really, so I guess the choice between paper and screen is ultimately a matter of preferences, familiarity with the medium, and so on and so forth, so everyone would have their own perfect workflow.