I decided I wanted to mess with some music in svg format. I decided to use lilypond, and to typeset something from my beginner's piano book to play around with. I was mainly using lilypond
2.17.91, although I also had a copy of 2.16.2. You can see the page I was trying to duplicate on amazon's preview, it's page 116, "Why Am I Blue?". http://www.amazon.com/Adult-All-In-One-Course-Lesson-Theory-Technic- Level/dp/0882848186/ref=sr_1_2? I was not trying to duplicate any of the red text, only the normal notation. (I was doing this for personal use and to learn lilypond, I know I can't distribute someone else's copyrighted stuff) After googling and reading various pages of the manual, I decided to use the parallel mode. Things were going well until I got to the first and second endings. Wrapping everything in \repeat worked, but everything blew up when I tried add \alternative. At one point I got it to compile, but it duplicated the staffs. I thought maybe it was broken in the 2.17 version, so I tried 2.16, and \repeat didn't work at all in that. Eventually, after many wasted hours, I redid it without parallel mode and that worked well. (I get the impression that parallel mode just doesn't work in certain situations, and I wish that the manual hadn't suggested that I use it.) But, I still wasn't able to get the pedal in the second ending to start out open. It always gave me a warning that the \sustainOff didn't have a matching \sustainOn for the last measure. It worked in the first ending though, which I thought was a little odd since they were both in the \alternative tag. Eventually I gave up on that and let the pedal start on the first node of the last measure, and end on the first rest. Finally, I got to the roman numerals, and from what I could find, there's not really a way to do that. That I also found surprising, because lilypond seems to support so much obscure stuff, I thought for sure it would support anything in a beginner's book. Anyway, I don't really have any questions. I just wanted to relay my experience in case it's helpful to the developers. Thanks, Tim _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
