Last night I was copying out a part I have to play which is squashed onto a page too small to be clear. This part needed two functions I've previously put off writing because I thought they would be really hard. I tried them last night, sitting down with the NR, and I managed to churn out two of them.
This experience has given me a lot more confidence with Lilypond: it feels like I've "gone up a level," to borrow the language of RPGs. So all I was writing for was to say thank you to all the Lilypond people - programmers, documentation authors, mailing-list-question-answerers, bug list triagers, and even constructive-whingers. I can appreciate much more now how awesome this piece of software. I didn't previously understand how true it was when people said you can make Lilypond do anything - but it's even bigger than that: you can make any Lilypond construct look like anything you like. Now to anticipate questions people are likely to ask in reply. I don't think there was any one part of the documentation that made me feel more confident about it: it was more a coming-together of the things I'd already learned. 'NR 6.3 Building complicated functions' was something I referred to a lot, and the command index. One slightly hard thing was that to find the page on options I can give to spanners I had to follow the chain 1.8 Text -> 1.8.1 Writing text -> Text spanners -> 5.4.7 Line styles -> 5.4.5 Spanners. The 'Text spanners' section just links to TextSpanner in the IR, which was much less useful to me; it would be great if it linked to 5.4.5 directly, and I will write a patch to that effect unless someone beats me to it. The other answer is: yes, I will send in my useful functions. One is for adding flams to drum notes, and the other is for using a spanner to give a "Fill" indication. I also have a trivial function for printing the Git commit hash of the .ly file (I keep all my parts under version control) that I've been meaning to contribute for a while. I'll send you all of them some time when I'm not on my way out to work. -- There is no such thing as a small specification change. http://surreal.istic.org/ There is no need to shout.
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