Re: Figured bass Documentation issue

2004-12-02 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You could actually take Laura's original example to produce such a thing. Here's a slightly modified version: \version "2.2" mybassline = \notes { \time 3/4 \clef bass \key a \minor a,2< }>> | <4 <6> }>> | < }>> | <4 <3> }>> < }>> | d2< }>> | c2r4 | } \score{ <<

Re: Figured bass Documentation issue

2004-12-01 Thread Carl Sorensen
On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 21:59, Laura Conrad wrote: > But it's not whether the verb in the explanation should be eats or > responds to that I'm talking about, it's whether the object of the > verb should be "note-requests and rest-requests" as it was in the 1.6 > "stuff", or "figured bass requests an

Re: Figured bass Documentation issue

2004-11-27 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Graham" == Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Graham> On 24-Nov-04, at 6:27 AM, Laura Conrad wrote: >> There might be better words to use than "eats". Graham> I don't understand how FiguredBass works, but how's this? Graham> Figured bass is created by the FiguredB

Re: Figured bass Documentation issue

2004-11-27 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > On 24-Nov-04, at 6:27 AM, Laura Conrad wrote: > > There might be better words to use than "eats". > > I don't understand how FiguredBass works, but how's this? > > Figured bass is created by the FiguredBass context which responds to > figured bass requests and rest-

Re: Figured bass Documentation issue

2004-11-27 Thread Graham Percival
On 24-Nov-04, at 6:27 AM, Laura Conrad wrote: There might be better words to use than "eats". I don't understand how FiguredBass works, but how's this? Figured bass is created by the FiguredBass context which responds to figured bass requests and rest-requests. You must enter these using the speci

Re: Figured bass Documentation issue

2004-11-24 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Mats" == Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mats> The question is rather what "eats" means. In version 2.4, I think the Mats> author meant to say that figured bass requests and rest requests are Mats> taken into account, i.e. "eat"="use", not "eat"="discard". Mats> M

Re: Figured bass Documentation issue

2004-11-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The question is rather what "eats" means. In version 2.4, I think the author meant to say that figured bass requests and rest requests are taken into account, i.e. "eat"="use", not "eat"="discard". Maybe we have some nutritionist on the list who can help clarify the situation? ;-) Seriously, the co

Figured bass Documentation issue

2004-11-24 Thread Laura Conrad
It looks from Mat's and Han-Wen's investigations that it's the documentation of figured bass that's gone backwards since 1.6, not the actual implementation. The 1.6 version of input/test/figured-base.ly said: 1.6> Figured bass is created by the FiguredBass context which eats 1.6> note-re