On 5/22/09 4:25 PM, "Nick Payne" <nick.pa...@internode.on.net> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Patrick McCarty [mailto:pnor...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Saturday, 23 May 2009 8:15 AM
>> To: Nick Payne
>> Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
>> Subject: Re: Should sample code in NR build correctly?
>>
>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:54:54AM +1000, Nick Payne wrote:
>>> For example, on p.98 of the PDF version of the 2.12.2 NR the
>> following
>>> example appears about half way down the page:
>>>
>>> \repeat volta 2 { c4 d e f }
>>> c2 d
>>> \repeat volta 2 { d4 e f g }
>>>
>>> If you try to build this using 2.12.2 on Windows you get
>>>
>>> error: syntax error, unexpected NOTENAME_PITCH
>>>
>>> c2 d
>>>
>>> and the output is two separate staves rather than the single staff
>> shown
>>> with the example. The whole thing has to be surrounded by \relative
>> c'' { }
>>> to get the desired output.
>>>
>>> The reason I ask is that I remember a post from someone a while ago
>> saying
>>> that the code as shown in the manuals had been used to produce the
>> output.
>>
>> If you click on the image of the musical example, and copy/paste the
>> appropriate code, it should compile.
>>
> That suggestion only works with the HTML documentation, not the PDF
> documentation. I almost always use the PDF documentation, as I can build an
> easily searchable index across all the different manuals.
Nearly all the examples are in relative mode, meaning they have a
\relative c' {}
(or some other octave)
around them. It was a conscious choice to do so. This convention is
explained in Learning Manual 2.1.4 How to read the manual.
How should it be more prominent?
Carl
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