On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:27:46PM +0000, Neil Sands wrote: > I hope this is the right place to point out some errors in the LilyPond > Learning > Manual.
Thanks for the feedback! Normally this would go to the bug-lilypond mailing list, which I've CC'd. > 1. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/building-a-score-from- > scratch > > On this page, in the variable called 'ManualTwoMusic', we see the text 'e8~ > ees16', which seems to mean an E tied to an E flat. A warning about an > unterminated tie is given during the compilation process, and the score that > results (and the example score in the docs) both show an E natural followed > by > an E flat at that point. So I think the tilde symbol ~ for the tie is just > wrong > here. Yes, that looks like a typo. > 2. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/fixing-overlapping- > notation > > In a few places on this page, we see this sort of thing: > '{ e''8 e'' e'' e'' e'' e'' e'' e'' f''2 g'' }' > when in the example score in the docs, we see a row of Es all in the same > octave. When you compile the code given above, it puts each note up two > octaves > in relation to the last. The examples on this page are full of this kind of > thing. Hmm. Most examples use \relative c' as stated here: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/omitted-material however, some examples use absolute note names. By default, if you write { c'4 } then it will be interpreted as written with absolute note names. I personally wish that we had explicit \absolute{} for such cases, but it will be tricky to figure out exactly what to do about this. > 3. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/style-sheets > > In the code immediately under this text... > 'Let’s copy the current ‘definitions.ily’ to ‘web-publish.ily’ and modify > that. > Since this music is aimed at producing a pdf which will be displayed on the > screen, we’ll also increase the overall size of the output.' > ... the first line of code has the comment '%%% definitions.ily', when > actually > it should be '%%% web-publish.ily' (as that's the name of the file people > following the text have been instructed to edit). That looks like the correct fix. > 4. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/other-sources-of- > information > > In the GNU/Linux information, the path name > INSTALLDIR/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ is given. In fact, it should > begin INSTALLDIR/LilyPond/... (i.e. LilyPond in mixed case). Hmm, are you sure? On my system, I see /lilypond/ gperciva@kuro:~ $ ls .usr/lilypond/usr/ bin etc lib share var Do you have it installed in /usr/local/ ? maybe it uses that capitalization when in /usr/local/ but not when it's in a different directory? - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
