Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I t would be quite
> > nice if we could tell people "unless otherwise specified, all examples
> > in the notation manual are implicitly inside".
> >
> > \relative c' {
> > %%% printed text
> > }
>
> Yes, but that's not poss
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:44:10 +0100
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If anything, I think we should be looking to remove the optional
> > pitch argument, and force people to specify the octave in the first
> > note
>
> Yes, I agree.
Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I disagree; faking snippets is what started the whole thing. I think
> we should simply not explain it for the first few snippets (ie the
> "here's how to use lilypad" stuff), and explain it in 2.2.
Ok.
Jan.
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
If anything, I think we should be looking to remove the optional pitch
argument, and force people to specify the octave in the first note
Yes, I agree. But I think we can explain that when we get to octave
entry, and shoul
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If anything, I think we should be looking to remove the optional pitch
> argument, and force people to specify the octave in the first note
Yes, I agree. But I think we can explain that when we get to octave
entry, and should fake it in the first fe
Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> * use more complete and interesting examples lateron to explain
>> several related concepts
>
> Maybe, maybe not. I'd have to judge those on an individual basis.
Yes, of course. Attempts were the lead sheets, piano part, orchestral part.
> I
Graham Percival escreveu:
>> * only tell novices about relative mode, because that is what you'll
>> use anyway (apropos: we have made several attempts to make \relative
>> the default, and introduce an \absolute keyword/mode for expert
>> use, eg algorithmic composition. we still ma
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
* have a very gentle entry introducing only one concept at a time
Agreed.
* have learnful examples that clearly show the most interesting thing,
but not necessarily ready-to-copy (and we introduced clickable-ly's
for that
I disagree somewhat, and the rec
Graham is doing some great work on the tutorial and handling the wave
of absolute beginners guide enthousiasm.
However, I noticed that at the start of the tutorial, relative has
been removed and instead of showing only pitches first the first entry
now also shows octavation quotes
@example
