Thanks, I have a vague familiarity with lisps, but have never used scheme. I'm not certain how to visually parse a statment like \Staff \omit TimeSignature. It kind of looks like \Staff is a function taking two arguments, where \omit is either a constant or a function that returns a constant, and TimeSignature is some kind of constant. But it could also be that TimeSigniture is being passed to \omit, which returns to \staff. It's difficult to read because it doesn't parenthesise like typical programming languages.
On 17 April 2018 at 01:57, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > As I mentioned and others have said, there is no substitute for studying the > NR and the Learning Manual, in detail, exhaustively. It's a powerful program > with enormous control, unlike typical GUI programs. It's no different to > learning to play tin whistle. Nobody would expect to learn it in a week. > Because lilypond is text based, you have to fully understand the syntax and > semantics for advanced work. If you are keen, you can learn Scheme and > program functions and extensions. The documentation is exceptionally good, > given that this is open source software. > > [Re the Larsen ornaments, I can't see how to integrate Scheme and Lilypond > in safe mode. Possibly impossible!] > > cheerio! > Andrew > > > On 17 April 2018 at 04:50, Robert Hickman <robehick...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> I'm finding it quite difficult to find out how to do what I want to do >> with lilypond. >> > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
