@Urs, Klaus, and Andrew Thank you very much!
This makes sense now (I guess Lilypond does not need to be a "programming language" per se and that is where the confusion is). I will add your replies to our Music Blocks discussion thread so that everyone from our team is in the loop about this. Devin On 02/15/2016 11:16 AM, Klaus Blum wrote: > Hi Devin, > > the use of parentheses is somewhat special: > don't think of them as a pair of parentheses. :-) > > An opening parenthesis after a note indicates the beginning of a slur, a > closing parenthesis means the end of a slur. > So, in your second example the slur ends on the c'8 whereas in your first > example the closing parenthesis doesn't follow a note. > > Cheers, > Klaus > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Is-there-a-bug-in-the-way-Lilypond-handles-staccatos-tp187242p187246.html > Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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