Many thanks to the all the diligent developers and users for 2.10 and the
previous versions.
I'm now running 2.10 on xubuntu (ubuntu 6.06) and I have several questions
about lilypond 2.10:
1. It looks like hairpinToBarline is set "true" by default. The "changes" doc
makes it sound like you have to turn it on to get it to work:
"By setting hairpinToBarline, hairpins will stop at the barline preceding the
ending note."
I assume that it was intended to be set ##t by default, and the docs are just
phrased from a 2.8 point of view. If this is so (here's the question) is it
##t by default because that's the common consensus of traditional old-school
engraving -- or is it just 'cause?
2. It looks like you can't put \tempo= inside \
midi{ } anymore. Lilypond complains about it in my 2.8 files, and after I've
run convert-ly, I see it replace by something like this:
\midi {
\context {
\Score
tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 90 4)
}
}
The 2.10 manual (p 232) seems to say that only the \tempo command that goes
with the notes (producing a metronome mark unless forbidden to do so) affects
the tempo of the midi file. The manual's a little confusing here actually,
because the example shows the curly brackets empty for the midi block, and
tells us that in this example the tempo is set to 4=72. How? By leaving it
empty? So 72 is default? What am I missing?
So, the only ways to set a tempo for the midi file without adding a metronome
mark are to add and a metronome mark, but make it invisible, or else do that
kind of longish thing with the scheme-indentifier in it, wherewith convert-ly
replaces the old \midi{ \tempo = ... } deal. Right?
Is there a shorter way, or can I somehow re-instate the 2.8 method in my
lilypond installation? I often make midi files, but rarely require a
metronome mark.
3. When I run 2.10 on any files (before or after convert-ly) I get lots of
messages that say "programming error: no solution found for Bezier
intersection, continuing, crossfingers"
The files still compile, but I wonder if it's okay to uncross my fingers now.
[8^)>
4. (the dumbest question of all) Why 2.10? What's wrong with 3?
Thanks again. Please pardon my verbosity and probably my utter density
regarding all of the above.
Fr. P
PS. My, what lovely shapenote heads!
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