Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> writes: > Sometimes I think using "(" and ")" to indicate slurs leads to > misunderstandings, they are read as a sort of brackets (they are not) > Ofcourse it's conveniant, but I wonder, if doing like below would lead > to the same misinterpretation: > > startSlur = #(make-span-event 'SlurEvent START) > stopSlur = #(make-span-event 'SlurEvent STOP) > > > { > a'-\startSlur b' c''-\stopSlur > }
Sure, it would lead to fewer initial misunderstandings but make entry less convenient. MusicXML is easy to understand "in principle" but awfully inconvenient and illegible. LilyPond syntax is foremost serving the humans entering and reading music routinely. I don't think that in this case the advantage for initial learning would offset the inconvenience for sustained use. So I see it more as a documentation challenge than a design failure. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user