Great, Daniel! Glad to hear of your breakthrough. Most of us have had similar moments I'm sure.
Jon On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Daniel Hulme <s...@istic.org> wrote: > 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. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkoc7Y8ACgkQgoQ42ohbFw18耨☗䠮勳鉑姆囚獇鏵覲 > HsgAoJdgvUo9ttTUu0o7JE0GcDSuPwkU > =zAwV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- Jonathan Kulp http://www.jonathankulp.com
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