Scheme and Guile as it relates to Lilypond

2010-08-06 Thread jim . showalter
In my endeavors to learn Scheme I have noticed a number of function calls in Lilypond which are not covered in non-Guile documentation.  One example is define-public but there are others (the later appears to be a convenience notation for a "regular" Scheme construct).  I am assuming that thes

Re: Re: Lilypond Architectural Overview Request

2010-08-04 Thread jim . showalter
Mike,Thanks for the info.  I am about to go on vacation so I will have more time to look into this stuff in depth.Regarding Graham's comment, my question was certainly not a complaint but an observation (and one which may have been that I was looking in the wrong places).  As to asking questions o

Turning on sustain between variables

2010-08-03 Thread jim . showalter
If I have a simple phrase likephrase = { a b c d e}How do I turn sustain on and off between phrases.The following illustrates what I want to do but of course gives a syntax error.{  \phrase \sustainOn \phrase \sustainOff}A more general question is how does one "attach"  lilypond directives/command