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Todd M. Zimnoch wrote:
I'm new to this group, and while I've found the archives, I haven't found a faq for this group. Does one exist?
There have been long the discussions on the mailing list on the need for a FAQ. In the end it boils down to that someone has to be responsible and keep it up to date (which is a challenging task since LilyPond still keeps evolving at a high rate). Also, the ambition is rather to improve the problem and the ordinary documentation when a FAQ appears.
I've waded through lilypond's documentation, mostly skimming, and one area I haven't found that I would personally find most useful is a straight listing of all properties. e.g., a \header block has fields for piece, copyright, title, subtitle, subsubtitle, opus, poet, head, pagenumber, composer.... I don't imagine that's exhaustive, but I can't find an exhaustive list. (item 6.1.1 in lilypond's documentation comes close) Staves have their own list of properties I'd like to know more about, e.g. instr, instrument. Have I missed a resource or read too fast?
The list of \header fields is documented in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Invoking-lilypond.html#Invoking%20lilypond For all other properties, you can find complete lists in the on-line manual if you click on "Program reference". Lists for each kind of context are found under "Translation" -> "Contexts" and lists for each kind of graphical object under "Backend" -> "All layout objects:". However, the easiest way to navigate to such a list is often to follow the links under "See also" at the bottom of the page in the user manual.
Also, one great source of information and examples is the "Tips and Tricks" document as well as the "Regression test" document on lilypond.org.
My more immediate problems concern rehearsal marks and large scores with separate parts printing. Is there a way to set or define rehearsal marks so they can be easily included with a \notes block? I'm not enjoying editting every \notes block to place rehearsal marks on every part and I'd like a way to guarantee that the rehearsal marks are in exactly the same location for every part. :/
Have you found http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ yet? Here you will find lots of larger examples of using LilyPond (in the advanced search page you can specify examples that match your own LilyPond version). There are also a couple of examples in your own LilyPond installation, typically in /usr/share/doc/lilypond/*/input/mutopia/. In many of these examples, you'll find something like global = \notes{ \skip 1*13 \mark "A" \skip 1*25 \mark "B" \bar "||" } which can be used both in a full score and in a separate part using \score{ % Full score \new StaffGroup << \new Staff << \global \flute >> \new Staff {\oboe} ... >> }
\score{ % Oboe part \new Staff << \global \oboe >> }
Also, if the rehearsal mark appears at the begining of a staff it prints over and behind the clef directly on top of the measure number (easy-to-miss and hard-to-read) rather than above the key signature (standard for sheet music I've played). How can I move it?
You can find some recent discussions on this topic on the mailing list archives. I'm not sure what the best solution is for the moment.
/Mats
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