lilypond source on ubuntu

2009-04-09 Thread John Mangual
I would like to try my hand and fixing some Lilypond bugs. Is there a beginners trail for this? Also I'd like to see locate the Lilypond source on my Ubuntu computer and understand where some of the commands are defined. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list

Re: function lookup

2008-12-15 Thread John Mangual
So there is a distinction between parser keywords and music functions? On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Neil Puttock wrote: > Hi John, > > 2008/12/14 John Mangual : > > how would i go about looking up the scheme source code for a specific > > function like "tra

function lookup

2008-12-14 Thread John Mangual
how would i go about looking up the scheme source code for a specific function like "transpose" or "tuple" or "key" ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Flow of Information through the Lilypond Source

2008-11-22 Thread John Mangual
Can someone walk me through how the "hello world" of Lilypond - probably \relative c { a b c d e f g} - gets processed? Maybe the end product could be a short tutorial for interested coders following the flow of information from the Scheme-esque code we put in a text editor to the final postscrip

must I build?

2008-11-03 Thread John Mangual
When you write for Lilypond, can you use the pre-compiled version or must you build it youself? And if you see a bug, how can you trace it? I use lilypond a lot for my homework assignments, but I wanted to see how the compiler works. - John ___ lilypond