Palmer, Ralph wrote:
Nice program! I was using .abc, with abcm2ps (which I still like for its ease of use and speed of entry), but LilyPond seems even more flexible. I think I still prefer .abc for some scores, but there are things I can do in LilyPond that I can't do in .abc.
You could write your notes in .abc, run abc2ly, and then make a few final tweaks. I'm not certain how complete abc2ly is though.
1) What's LSR?
LilyPond Snippet Repository, http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/
2) What's the significance of an embedded space? Or, perhaps more to the point, where are embedded spaces (or line returns, for that matter) prohibited (or significant)? It's clear there are places where adding an embedded space mucks things up (like between a note name and and a slur start, for example), and places where it seems to make no difference to LilyPond; is there a simple rule that distinguishes the two categories?
I'm not certain what you mean by "embedded space". You can control the line breaks with \break and \noBreak; you can alter the position of individual objects with #'padding and #'extra-offset. (see chapters 5 and 9 in the manual for more about this)
Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user