Okay thank you, I did find this example that worked:
\relative {
\key d \major
cis''4 d e fis
}
On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 10:21 AM David Santamauro <david.santama...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Like David said earlier, you actually have 2 implicit scores.
>
>
>
> \version "2.22.2"
>
> % score 1 that yields the warning and prints nothing (hence no key
> signature)
>
> \key d \major
>
>
>
> % score 2
>
> { a }
>
>
>
> This works:
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> \version "2.22.2"
>
> \relative {
>
> \key d \major a
>
> }
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> *From: *lilypond-user <lilypond-user-bounces+david.santamauro=
> gmail....@gnu.org> on behalf of Andrew Musselman <
> andrew.mussel...@gmail.com>
> *Date: *Friday, June 3, 2022 at 1:16 PM
> *To: *lilypond-user@gnu.org <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
> *Subject: *Re: Key and tie questions
>
> As for the key signature, I am still seeing nothing about key in the pdf
> when I do this to remove all complexity:
>
>
>
> \version "2.22.2"
> \key d \major
> {
> a
> }
>
>
>
> Log says:
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>
>
> $ lilypond -f pdf the-mountain.ly
> GNU LilyPond 2.22.2 (running Guile 2.2)
> Processing `the-mountain.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music...
> the-mountain.ly:2:1: warning: skipping zero-duration score
>
> \key d \major
> the-mountain.ly:2:1: warning: to suppress this, consider adding a spacer
> rest
>
> \key d \major
> Interpreting music...
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Finding the ideal number of pages...
> Fitting music on 1 page...
> Drawing systems...
> Converting to `the-mountain.pdf'...
> Success: compilation successfully completed
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 10:09 AM Andrew Musselman <
> andrew.mussel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Okay subtle but I do see the difference; thank you
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 10:07 AM David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Andrew Musselman <andrew.mussel...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I got a beam by adding `\(` and `\)` around the b and c, looks good.
>
> That's not a beam but a phrasing slur, and at that point in the score, a
> phrasing slur seems like an odd choice: it usually extends over whole
> phrases rather than joining two notes. You probably want a straight
> slur, gotten with `(` and `)`. A beam is a straight line substituting
> for flags on a note stem and connecting several notes of length 1/8 or
> shorter.
>
> --
> David Kastrup
>
>
