Cc: Mark Stephen Mrotek ; lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Putting finger substitution in the LilyPond manual
On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 10:22 AM Carl Sorensen wrote:
>
> I think this should be a snippet, rather than text in a section. Rather than
> telling, just show (and one can s
On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 10:22 AM Carl Sorensen wrote:
>
> I think this should be a snippet, rather than text in a section. Rather than
> telling, just show (and one can show three different methods in one snippet).
>
> The snippet could be as simple as:
>
> \version "2.21"
>
> \header {
> lsrt
On 10/24/21, 10:33 AM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Knute Snortum"
wrote:
On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 8:46 AM Mark Stephen Mrotek
wrote:
>
> Knute,
>
> Some instructions are here
>
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff#fingering-instruc
Actually the discussed solutions here are arguably better than the
documentation example, because that one simply uses a markup event instead of a
fingering event, which will cause problems in positioning.
Cheers,
Valentin
24.10.2021 18:32:32 Knute Snortum :
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 8:46 AM M
On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 8:46 AM Mark Stephen Mrotek
wrote:
>
> Knute,
>
> Some instructions are here
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff#fingering-instructions
> although it refers mainly to stringed instrument.
Thank you Mark. So no need for a new section, b
Behalf Of Knute Snortum
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 7:36 AM
To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Putting finger substitution in the LilyPond manual
In this thread (1) we discussed how to notate the piano technique of holding
down one note and changing fingers without releasing the note.
Wikipedia
> Any thoughts on this?
Just provide a patch on the development repository at this point. It is easier
to discuss specifics with concrete material. The contributor's guide has all
you need to know, and feel free to ask for assistance with Git, Texinfo or
anything.
Thanks in advance.
Jean
In this thread (1) we discussed how to notate the piano technique of
holding down one note and changing fingers without releasing the note.
Wikipedia calls this "substitution." (2) I would like to put a
section in the manual that explains how to notate this. It seems to
be a fairly common thing i
- Original Message -
From: "Tom Dickson"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 6:45 PM
Subject: Download lilypond manual via GIT or other updateable method?
I keep an offline copy of the Lilypond manual; is there a way to
use GIT or similar to just update my copy without
2014/1/1 Tom Dickson
> I keep an offline copy of the Lilypond manual; is there a way to
> use GIT or similar to just update my copy without having to
> download a 200+ MB tarball each time?
>
First, install git and the dependencies. On Debian/Ubuntu this command
should install
I keep an offline copy of the Lilypond manual; is there a way to
use GIT or similar to just update my copy without having to
download a 200+ MB tarball each time?
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Janek Warchoł writes:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Peter Gentry
> wrote:
>> I don't see a need for a \absolute: the absence of a \relative
>> does the trick - would anyone want to mix the two I wonder?
>
> for example when one piece of music is entered by several people, and
> they used di
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Peter Gentry
wrote:
> I don't see a need for a \absolute: the absence of a \relative
> does the trick - would anyone want to mix the two I wonder?
for example when one piece of music is entered by several people, and
they used different "modes" for the fragments t
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Graham Percival
wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 12:30:44AM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
>> > It is surely possible to make mod_rewrite not change the visible url, or
>> > otherwise arrange for the version-indepe
>
>Well, I don't think the rest of us are abnormal. A few
>minutes practice for most normal people is all it takes ;)
>
>Trevor
Ah but you are dealing with a brain that always gets the fence/fence post count
wrong. It does not come easily even after repeated
training - so maybe I'm the one
Karl Berry writes:
> These are not really bugs, all up for interpretation, so I thought I'd
> write here ...
Thanks!
> I wanted to give a url about simple Lilypond input to the prototypical
> naive user (my mom, who is a musician but not a programmer).
That's why we created a couple of entry ur
- Original Message -
From: "Trevor Daniels"
To: "Peter Gentry" ;
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: lilypond manual intro
An octave mistake on a single note in polyphonic music in
absolute notation could easily go unnoticed.
Not
Peter Gentry wrote Monday, September 10, 2012 9:28 AM
> Having had my share of gripes re the manuals I am now a "born again"
> supporter - they are great (not perfect) but great.
Nice to be appreciated - thanks!
> The notation manual is particularly good - the learning manual is fine never
>
"Peter Gentry" writes:
> Having had my share of gripes re the manuals I am now a "born again"
> supporter - they are great (not perfect) but great.
>
> I recommend that you download all the relevant manuals as pdfs to a
> folder withing your Lilypond data file group and use the
> advanced search
Having had my share of gripes re the manuals I am now a "born again" supporter
- they are great (not perfect) but great.
I recommend that you download all the relevant manuals as pdfs to a folder
withing your Lilypond data file group and use the
advanced search to check through all the manuals w
opens the door to dead links.
That door is open no matter what, it seems to me. It's not just people
clicking around your web site under your control that are affected.
Another Texinfo manual might have an xref to one of your nodes. That
will become a dead link.
The best way I know to close
Graham Percival writes:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:19:36PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Graham Percival writes:
>>
>> > (I'd also like to have an \absolute keyword so that doc examples
>> > using it could be more explicit, but that would need to wait until
>> > we have a good way to discuss
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 12:30:44AM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
> >
> > Probably for the same reason I didn't: when we go to the web site and
> > simply click the obvious links, the browser shows the version-dependent
> > url.
> >
> > It is surel
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:19:36PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Graham Percival writes:
>
> > (I'd also like to have an \absolute keyword so that doc examples
> > using it could be more explicit, but that would need to wait until
> > we have a good way to discuss syntax changes)
>
> absolute =
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
>
>> How come i didn't know about them??
>
> Probably for the same reason I didn't: when we go to the web site and
> simply click the obvious links, the browser shows the version-dependent
> url.
yup.
> It is surely possible to make mod_rewrite
>> than teaching absolute entry only to ditch it a few pages later.
I wasn't thinking of a few pages. More like a couple more examples
which do nothing more with pitches than the first one days (so not
digging a deeper non-\relative hole), but rather show a few other
completely basic things,
Hi Karl,
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
> Ok, I go there (http://lilypond.org/website/text-input.html). And the
> example looks quite complex, what with numerous colors, arrows, etc.,
> etc. Not what I want to show my mom.
I'd make these examples simpler, too. But i guess
Graham Percival writes:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 06:20:09PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>>
>> Karl Berry wrote Friday, September 07, 2012 11:45 PM
>>
>> > The first example there looks good (and is in fact what I sent her).
>> > But then the second example, instead of showing how to typeset o
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 06:20:09PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>
> Karl Berry wrote Friday, September 07, 2012 11:45 PM
>
> > The first example there looks good (and is in fact what I sent her).
> > But then the second example, instead of showing how to typeset other
> > kinds of notation, goes
Karl Berry wrote Friday, September 07, 2012 11:45 PM
> I start at http://lilypond.org/website/manuals.html. It says:
> Text input: LilyPond is a text-based music engraver. Read this first!
>
> Ok, I go there (http://lilypond.org/website/text-input.html). And the
> example looks quite complex
These are not really bugs, all up for interpretation, so I thought I'd
write here ...
I wanted to give a url about simple Lilypond input to the prototypical
naive user (my mom, who is a musician but not a programmer).
I start at http://lilypond.org/website/manuals.html. It says:
Text input: Li
, and you can do stuff line
(line break)~5 to find "line" and "break" withing 5 words. Personally
I've always found direct search into the lilypond manual impossible.
Sebastino, I just did a quick check with "line break", and the
first two results were in
Rune Zedeler wrote:
I don't really get...
What is the problem with just serching on the "one big page" docu?
It takes a lot of time (and bandwidth!) to load? Also, I assume that
this search is more intelligent than just finding the first appearance
of your string; it attempts to rank the res
I don't really get...
What is the problem with just serching on the "one big page" docu?
-Rune
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On Jan 21, 2007, at 12:39 AM, Graham Percival wrote:
Sebastiano Vigna wrote:
I've enriched LSR with an indexed version of the manual, but I
can't seem to find a "canonical" way to download the manual (a
tar? a zip?), and wget on the site gets into infinite recursion
(probably because of a
On 23 Sep 2005, at 05:43, Graham Percival wrote:
On 22-Sep-05, at 4:47 PM, Suzanne Blatt wrote:
Can anyone shed some light as to why the manual examples are not
working?
Many of the manual examples are presented as fragments -- ie
It is also safer to pick examples from the HTML version,
On 22-Sep-05, at 4:47 PM, Suzanne Blatt wrote:
i've been trying in vain to get Lilypond 2.6 up and running on my SUSE
9.3, so I switched to the Windows side of my computer and installed
Lilypond 2.7. As a test, I went to the manual and typed verbatim an
example and it didn't work. I found a
Hello,
i've been trying in vain to get Lilypond 2.6 up and running on my SUSE 9.3, so I switched to the Windows side of my computer and installed Lilypond 2.7. As a test, I went to the manual and typed verbatim an example and it didn't work. I found a similar thing on the Linux side of my mac
Hello, Han-Wen and LilyPond friends.
I have two printed copies of the LilyPond manual. They are not similar,
one has four more pages than the other, but both title pages say the
copyright is for 1999-2002. I do not quickly find in either which version
of LilyPond they document. Is there any
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> Hello, Han-Wen and LilyPond friends.
>
> I have two printed copies of the LilyPond manual. They are not similar,
> one has four more pages than the other, but both title pages say the
> copyright is for 1999-2002. I do not quickly find in either whi
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