"Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net> writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> > To: <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> > Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:03 PM > Subject: Re: Documentation policy > > >> "Phil Holmes" <em...@philholmes.net> writes: >> >>> If you look at >>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/proportional-notation >>> and the third example down, there's a single piece of music repeated >>> three times but with different options on spacing. I've noticed a >>> number of similar examples. I'd find it clearer if the music were >>> assigned to a variable, and the examples used that variable - it would >>> be absolutely clear what was changed between the examples. It would >>> also save a little space. Is there a reason for not doing this? >> >> Snippets are all compiled independently. > > I realise that. The one I referred to is attached - as you'll see, > the music > > c'2 > c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16 > \tuplet 5/4 { > c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16 > > is repeated 3 times in the single snippet.
Well, I see nothing wrong with using a music variable here. We are rather careful in the tutorial not to introduce material before it has been explained, but I think that we don't have similarly stringent linearity rules for the NR. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
