--- On Sat, 8/1/09, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:
> From: Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca>
> Subject: Re: First Lilypond Score
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancs...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org, "Jonathan Kulp" <jonlancek...@gmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 2:26 AM
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:21:49PM
> -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> >
> > slurs - I had a lot of "cannot end slur" problems
> early on, evidently
> > because I was trying to end a slur in a different
> voice (which isn't a
> > problem in Finale).
>
> This seems to be a sufficiently common misunderstanding.
> Jonathan: please add a @warning at the top of NR 1.3.2
> Slurs.
>
> > internals reference- I found myself going into the
> internals reference
> > way too often. Of course this is a good thing in
> order to gain more
> > control over one's score, but a lot of it was wasting
> time, for example:
> > spending 10 minutes to build and test a macro to flip
> a tuplet position
> > when \tupletUp & \tupletDown already exist.
>
> err... are you suggesting that NR 1.2.1 Ties was hard to
> find? Or
> that the link to NR 5.4.2 Directions and placement wasn't
> suffcient visible? Or that LM 4.4.2 was misleading?
I read the LM in order and learned about \override and how to look up
internals before the commands. Somehow the importance of the commands in
LM 4.4.2 didn't register until I saw the command index in the NR.
Next time I read through it I'll see if there's anything concrete that
was tripping me up.
-Jonathan
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