Thanks, modified and pushed. For the record, I wasn't expecting (or fishing for) an actual patch; the page I was trying to point people at was: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/documentation-suggestions
(in particular, the "small additions" section) Cheers, - Graham On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Peter Chubb <pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au> wrote: >>>>>> "Graham" == Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: > > Graham> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Peter Chubb > Graham> <lily.u...@chubb.wattle.id.au> wrote: >>>>>>>> "Trevor" == Trevor Daniels <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes: >>> > Trevor> Peter's original announcement, with articulate.ly and some > Trevor> instructions for its use is at > Trevor> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-08/msg00108.html > > Graham> Yes, so it would be nice if somebody could send a "small > Graham> documentation suggestion" according to... > > Graham> huh. lilypond.org seems to be down at the moment, so I'll > Graham> just describe it: on the new webpage, click on Community, then > Graham> Development, then "documentation suggestions". > > Here's a patch. Feel free to edit for style :-) > > Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peter.ch...@nicta.com.au> > > --- > Documentation/usage/external.itely | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > Index: lilypond/Documentation/usage/external.itely > =================================================================== > --- lilypond.orig/Documentation/usage/external.itely 2010-02-17 > 12:44:00.551158469 +1100 > +++ lilypond/Documentation/usage/external.itely 2010-02-17 13:13:15.338160699 > +1100 > @@ -592,6 +592,24 @@ > �...@node MIDI articulation > �...@subsection MIDI articulation > > -TODO stub for info about Dr. Peter Chubb's @file{articulate.ly} > +LilyPond can be used to produce MIDI output, for `proof-hearing' what > +has been written. However, only dynamics, explicit tempo markings, > +and the notes and durations themselves are produced in the output. > + > +At > +...@uref{http://@/www@/.nicta@/.com@/.au/@/people/@/chubbp/@/articulate} > +is one attempt to get more of the information in the score into the > +MIDI. It works by shortening notes not under slurs, to `articulate' > +the notes. The amount of shortening depends on any > +articulation markings attached to a note: staccato halves the note > +value, tenuto gives a note its full duration, and so on. > + > +The script also realises trills and turns, and could be extended to > +expand other ornaments such as mordents. > + > +Its main limitation is that it can only affect things it knows about: > +anything that is merely textual markup (instead of a note property) is > +still ignored. > + > > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
