> From: Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: State of the docs, April 2006 > To: lily-devel <lilypond-devel@gnu.org>
> I'm getting burnt out from trying to do all the documentation. In > addition, in a fit of insanity I agreed to be the new Bug Meister. Don't burn yourself by doing too much, my friend! > INSTRUMENT-SPECIFIC NOTATION > Lilypond knowledge required: moderate knowledge in a specific area > Estimated time: variable > > As far as I know, the "instrument-specific notation" chapter is ok as > it is. However, if there are problems, I'm not going to fix them. I > don't play those instruments, I don't write music for those > instruments, I don't know what music for those instruments should look > like, and in the near future I won't have the time and energy to find > out. > > If you use any of the notation listed in this chapter -- including > lyrics, which I know is a big use of lilypond -- then please consider > "adopting" the appropriate section of this chapter. If anything needs > to be clarified, or if new notation should be added, please write it > yourself. If you use figured bass, or play guitar, or whatever, then > you know more about using lilypond for such things than I do. I'm > still quite happy to do the technical step of translating specific > instructions from an email into the lilypond documentation, but I am a > poor choice for writing these docs. I'll do the classical guitar for the next year. Not much, but hey, every bit helps, right? Once it gets supported, I might also fiddle a bit with lute tabulature docs. In this regard, a feature request: basic lute tabulature support. A very common kind of lute tabulature was written using letters instead of numbers (0th fret =open string=a, 1st fret = b, 2nd fret = c,...). Tuning is very often (in relative terms) similar to guitar: e a d fis b e instead of e a d g b e on a modern instrument. See amongst others: * http://polyhymnion.org/swv/theaxe.html * http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/tab-serv/tab-serv.cgi Mark -- Mark Van den Borre Noormannenstraat 113 3000 Leuven, België +32 486 961726 _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
