>>>>> "Graham" == Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes:
Graham> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:10:37PM +0200, Simon Bailey wrote: >> Graham Percival wrote: >>> If you have an idea for a general clarification that the syntax is >>> "pitch duration other", then I'm all for it. If it's a simple >>> "you need to put the ' before the duration", then I'd probably >>> reject it as being insufficiently general. >> >> my first idea was something along the lines of your refusal. :) i >> do have some other ideas about how to explain the syntax, but they >> depend on where you want to put it in the docs. Graham> ... >> where would you put it in 3.1.? Graham> Hmm. I was initially thinking of 3.1.2, but that subsection Graham> (actually, the entire section) is really talking about Graham> *macroscopic* style. I mean, it refers back to the definition Graham> of a (compound) "music expression". Graham> With that in mind, perhaps 2.3.1 is the best place: add 2-3 Graham> sentences and an articulation (or dynamic, or something) to Graham> the first paragraph+example. I'd really appreciate an appendix or something that gives Lily syntax as BNF, or as a syntax diagram. The syntax is very complex, and I've been caught out a number of times by things not being as I expected them to be from the NR --- not that the NR was wrong, but that the way elements are combined wasn't explicit. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia A university is a non-profit organisation only in the sense that it spends everything it gets ... Luca Turin. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user