You are on the fight track. One of the keys to teaching beginners Music is to write the notation in four equally sized measures, one directly under the other for several reasons which helps in the learning.   I just make up the staff paper & then write out for whatever instrument myself.

When they first began to come out, I couldn't get the darn programs to do what I wanted &/or needed them to do--operator malfunction being only a small factor. They simply didn't have all the needed symbols & things in the programing. So, like many of my edjumacated friends, I have continued to write out everything the old fashioned way like I did in Music school mmmty years ago, which is very readable since Dr. "Uncle" Arthur would take 20 points off for untidyness. (& 96-100 was an A!) Which brings me to the question bugging me for several years.

    Does anyone know of a program which does contain all the appropriate staves for most all varieties of arrangements, choral, instrumental, ensembles? And has the necessary tabs for all the bluegrass instruments--that is with a choice of 3, 4, 5, 6, or 8 lines representing the strings? And if I want to input a melody, can I click somewhere & voila the correct tab for say, Mountain Dulcimer or Mandolin is correctly formulated and appears before my bleary eyes on my 'puter screen? And has most all of the expression denotations which, say, a classical Musician would need? And which can put text under the exact spot under the notes? And is idiot proof? I know, therein lies the rub!

   I really haven't tried out the programs for awhile, & would like to have one, but don't want to pay $500!