Graham Percival writes:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 09:32:15AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Nick Payne writes:
>>
>> > On 05/07/11 06:26, Graham Percival wrote:
>> >> Ah, but as far as lilypond is concerned, whitespace *is* nothing. :)
>> > Actually, right-hand fingering requires whitespace. If
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 09:32:15AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Nick Payne writes:
>
> > On 05/07/11 06:26, Graham Percival wrote:
> >> Ah, but as far as lilypond is concerned, whitespace *is* nothing. :)
> > Actually, right-hand fingering requires whitespace. If the whitespace
> > between "#1"
> And therefore any example containing unnecessary whitespace _is_ "an example
> from which nothing can be removed".
Awesome.
That's why I love language, and debates where either side (including myself)
try to tie it down and make it "perfectly clear". =)
Thanks for my daily smile, Matt!
Kier
Nick Payne writes:
> On 05/07/11 06:26, Graham Percival wrote:
>> Ah, but as far as lilypond is concerned, whitespace *is* nothing. :)
> Actually, right-hand fingering requires whitespace. If the whitespace
> between "#1" and ">" in 4 is removed, Lilypond
> throws an error.
Not a particularly co
On 05/07/11 06:26, Graham Percival wrote:
Ah, but as far as lilypond is concerned, whitespace *is* nothing. :)
Actually, right-hand fingering requires whitespace. If the whitespace
between "#1" and ">" in 4 is removed, Lilypond
throws an error.
Nick
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On Tue 05 Jul 2011, 18:09 Matthew Collett wrote:
> On 5/07/2011, at 8:26 am, Graham Percival wrote:
> > Ah, but as far as lilypond is concerned, whitespace *is* nothing. :)
>
> And therefore any example containing unnecessary whitespace _is_
> "an example from which nothing can be removed".
Great
On 5/07/2011, at 8:26 am, Graham Percival wrote:
>>> To me the sentence "A tiny example is an example from which nothing
>>> can be removed." explains it all
>>
>> Can't whitespace be removed without affecting the outcome? ;)
>
> Ah, but as far as lilypond is concerned, whitespace *is* nothing.
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 03:55:37PM -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> > To me the sentence "A tiny example is an example from which nothing
> > can be removed." explains it all
>
> Can't whitespace be removed without affecting the outcome? ;)
Ah, but as far as lilypond is concerned, w
Hi all,
> To me the sentence "A tiny example is an example from which nothing
> can be removed." explains it all
Can't whitespace be removed without affecting the outcome? ;)
> I guess we have to clarify it.
+1.
Cheers,
Kieren.
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2011/7/4 James Harkins :
> Okay, I understand better now. "Tiny example" doesn't really just mean
> "tiny." To me, one bar is tiny.
:)
> But "tiny" seems to imply other things. Tiny-examples.html doesn't *quite*
> explain this.
To me the sentence "A tiny example is an example from which nothin
2011/7/4 Bill Mooney :
> \version "2.14.1"
> \include "english.ly"
> \score {
> \new Staff {
> \key d \major
> \numericTimeSignature
> \time 4/4
> r4
> \times 4/5 { 16\< b''> d'' b''>~ }
>
> 8~ %moving the dot from here.
>
> 8. % ... to here makes the tie pretty...
>
> Sorry for posting a too-complex example. But I'd also add, from the
> perspective of a relatively new user, "tiny example" seems to be
> defined a bit like pornography... hard to say exactly what it is,
> but you know it when you see it. :)
:-) This saying should go into the manual also...
Am Montag, 4. Juli 2011, 16:38:22 schrieb James Harkins:
> Okay, I understand better now. "Tiny example" doesn't really just mean
> "tiny." To me, one bar is tiny. But "tiny" seems to imply other things.
> Tiny-examples.html doesn't *quite* explain this.
"Tiny" is not meant in terms out music outp
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:38:22PM +0800, James Harkins wrote:
> Sorry for posting a too-complex example. But I'd also add, from
> the perspective of a relatively new user, "tiny example" seems
> to be defined a bit like pornography... hard to say exactly what
> it is, but you know it when you see
At Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:14:49 +0200,
m...@apollinemike.com wrote:
> Ties, like beams and stems, vary widely in terms of aesthetic preference, and
> LilyPond offers a few properties to help express these preferences through
> various minima, maxima, and penalties.
>
> Try setting:
> \override Tie #
At Mon, 4 Jul 2011 10:30:06 +0100,
Graham Percival wrote:
> We have limited developer resources. If possible, try to make an
> example which can be understood in about 10 seconds.
>
> > But, since you asked, I'll remove
> ... not enough.
Okay, I understand better now. "Tiny example" doesn't real
On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote:
> On Mon 04 Jul 2011, 15:39 James Harkins wrote:
>> \version "2.14.1"
>>
>> \include "english.ly"
>>
>> \score {
>> \new Staff {
>> \key d \major
>> \numericTimeSignature
>> \time 4/4
>> r4
>> \times 4/5 { 16\< > d'' b''>~ }
>> 16
On Mon 04 Jul 2011, 15:39 James Harkins wrote:
> \version "2.14.1"
>
> \include "english.ly"
>
> \score {
> \new Staff {
> \key d \major
> \numericTimeSignature
> \time 4/4
> r4
> \times 4/5 { 16\< b''>~ }
> 16 8.
>
> %% Here: the tie on the D's looks funny
> %
On Mon 04 Jul 2011, 10:30 Graham Percival wrote:
> Dmytro: here's a Tiny example.
>
> \version "2.14.1"
>
> \relative c'' {
> \time 2/4
> d16 d8. ~ d8 d
> % both sets of ties in chords look icky
> d16 8. ~ 8 d
> \tieUp
> d16 8. ~ 8 d
> }
Thank you. It's almost what's I am finished up
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 05:16:27PM +0800, James Harkins wrote:
> I find this remark a bit baffling. This is already an extract out of 120
> lines of lilypond code. I did my best to "tin-ify" it, and I'm quite startled
> to hear that this already very short example is somehow not tiny enough.
We
At Mon, 4 Jul 2011 11:01:20 +0300,
Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote:
> Could you please try to make your example smaller (as small as possible, to be
> a "tiny example", see http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html) ?
I find this remark a bit baffling. This is already an extract out of 120 lines
of lilypond
Hi!
You wrote:-
+++
\version "2.14.1"
\include "english.ly"
\score {
\new Staff {
\key d \major
\numericTimeSignature
\time 4/4
r4
\times 4/5 { 16\< ~ }
16 8.
%% Here: the tie on the D's looks funny
%% Too tall? Left-hand endpoint is not aligne
On Mon 04 Jul 2011, 15:39 James Harkins wrote:
> \version "2.14.1"
>
> \include "english.ly"
>
> \score {
> \new Staff {
> \key d \major
> \numericTimeSignature
> \time 4/4
> r4
> \times 4/5 { 16\< b''>~ }
> 16 8.
>
> %% Here: the tie on the D's looks funny
> %
James Harkins writes:
> Unrelated question -- I had asked a week or two ago if there is any
> more-convenient way to write repeated chords without copying and
> pasting the <...> expressions. I don't recall seeing an answer on the
> list. If the answer is "no," it would help me to know that for s
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