Robin Bannister wrote:
Robin Bannister wrote
A: 21 hits for "\context Staff"
B: 14 hits for "\context { \Staff"
I think I get it now. It must be that "\context" is overloaded, does
two quite different things. Upon meeting a "\context" you must
categorise it as A or B.
The uninitiated a
Robin Bannister wrote Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:56 PM
Statistics for NR (pdf dated 2008-08-09, only slightly stale):
A: 21 hits for "\context Staff"
B: 14 hits for "\context { \Staff"
Or is it that I'm talking about A, and you are talking about B?
Yes, or more to the point, the Learning
Robin Bannister wrote Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:36 PM
Robin Bannister wrote
A: 21 hits for "\context Staff"
B: 14 hits for "\context { \Staff"
I think I get it now.
Yup - you got it.
It must be that "\context" is overloaded,
does two quite different things.
Upon meeting a "\con
Robin Bannister wrote
A: 21 hits for "\context Staff"
B: 14 hits for "\context { \Staff"
I think I get it now.
It must be that "\context" is overloaded,
does two quite different things.
Upon meeting a "\context" you must categorise it as A or B.
The uninitiated attach no particular sig
Trevor Daniels wrote
Thanks, Robin
Well, you're welcome. Glad to be of some use.
But also disappointed,
because I thought I had understood something (from reading the manual!),
and now it seems I hadn't.
Statistics for NR (pdf dated 2008-08-09, only slightly stale):
A: 21 hits for "\co
Mats Bengtsson wrote
Robin Bannister wrote:
Trevor Daniels wrote
I learned you can have digits in context names! --- as long as the
names are in quotation marks.
which I regard as slightly more confirmation of my fragile suspicion that
in (the current GDP) Learning Manual 3.1.1 - In summar
Robin Bannister wrote:
Trevor Daniels wrote
I learned you can have digits in context names! --- as long as the
names are in quotation marks.
which I regard as slightly more confirmation of my fragile suspicion that
in (the current GDP) Learning Manual 3.1.1 - In summary there
shouldn't be
Trevor Daniels wrote
I learned you can have digits in context names! --- as long as the
names are in quotation marks.
which I regard as slightly more confirmation of my fragile suspicion that
in (the current GDP) Learning Manual 3.1.1 - In summary
there shouldn't be a backslash in front of
John Mandereau wrote Tuesday, August 12, 2008 5:42 PM
2008/8/10 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Absolutely. When the LM was written the appropriate sections in the
NR did not exist, or at least the headings were expected to change.
Now the headings have stabilised (more or less) the refs c
2008/8/11 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 23:54:44 +0200
> "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Actually, this is a Johnism (I don't know why he keeps asking us to
>> remove parentheses).
>
> Parentheses are discouraged in highly formal writing, but they add
2008/8/10 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Absolutely. When the LM was written the appropriate sections in the
> NR did not exist, or at least the headings were expected to change.
> Now the headings have stabilised (more or less) the refs can be added.
>
> Could you please make a new patch,
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 23:54:44 +0200
"Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/8/9 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > This must be a Frenchism; I winced when I saw it in some of
> > Valentin's text.itely changes. Why on earth remove the
> > parentheses? They help clarify the s
John, you wrote Saturday, August 09, 2008 5:15 PM
I proofread chapter 3 of the Learning Manual up to 3.1.4 'Modifying
context properties'. This is globally great work, I wish I could read
such docs instead of spending hours in trial-and-error and reading
Mats' explanations on -user, when I sta
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:39:09 +0200
Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote:
>
> >I disagree. Shoving \header outside of a \book or \score is a
> >shorthand, and I'd rather keep the "basic" example as basic as
> >(reasonably) possibly. Also, having a \header on its own
2008/8/9 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This must be a Frenchism; I winced when I saw it in some of
> Valentin's text.itely changes. Why on earth remove the
> parentheses? They help clarify the structure of the sentence.
Actually, this is a Johnism (I don't know why he keeps asking us t
Graham Percival wrote:
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:15:35 +0200
"John Mandereau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In 'Introduction to the LilyPond file structure':
by default, \header does not use the same fields depending on its
scope (\book or \score), so IMO it's better to show the more standard
file
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:15:35 +0200
"John Mandereau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In 'Introduction to the LilyPond file structure':
> by default, \header does not use the same fields depending on its
> scope (\book or \score), so IMO it's better to show the more standard
> file structure with a \hea
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:14:19 +0100
Nicholas WASTELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:34:51 -0800
> Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > We're not using the term "user manual", but obviously I didn't
> > change it somewhere.
>
> It says 'User manual' in the page tit
Nicholas WASTELL wrote on 29 February 2008 08:14
> Only after spending some time in lilypond-world.
> 'Getting Started' and 'User Manual' are pretty
> well de facto standards, but I like a bit of
> individualism! ;-) Of course, the Learning
> Manual is much more than Getting Started and
>
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:34:51 -0800
Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We're not using the term "user manual", but obviously I didn't
> change it somewhere.
It says 'User manual' in the page title of all the html pages and on the title
page of the .pdf (v.2.11.41).
> It shoudl be "Not
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:19:04 +0100
"James E. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 28.02.2008, at 11:07, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > Did you search for "Comment" in the index of the Tutorial?
> >
> > However, you are right that it seems to be missing in the NR,
> > where it also should be inclu
On 28.02.2008, at 11:07, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
Did you search for "Comment" in the index of the Tutorial?
However, you are right that it seems to be missing in the NR,
where it also should be included for completeness.
/Mats
James E. Bailey wrote:
Maybe I'm still sleepy (it's early), but I'
hi james,
On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:58 AM, James E. Bailey wrote:
Maybe I'm still sleepy (it's early), but I'm not finding the section
on comments in the new documentation. Specifically, something that
deals with
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Working-on-text-files#Wo
I swear i will read the index more often :~)
thank you anyway!
Mats Bengtsson wrote:
For questions like these, where the answer is easily available
in the documentation, I recommend those of you who often send
answers, to rather teach the user to help himself by pointing to the
"Unified index" or
For questions like these, where the answer is easily available
in the documentation, I recommend those of you who often send
answers, to rather teach the user to help himself by pointing to the
"Unified index" or the Search function on the web page.
In cases where it's hard to find the answer via t
Search for "comments" in the index for the manual.
/Mats
Benoît Rouits wrote:
hello,
i read the tutorial of lilypond and didn't find how to make comments in
the lily score. i tried # but didn't win. Thx to tell me what is the
comment syntax.
--
=
At 04:32 PM 4/15/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>hello,
>i read the tutorial of lilypond and didn't find how to make comments in
>the lily score. i tried # but didn't win. Thx to tell me what is the
>comment syntax.
>
>--
>Benoît Rouits
Use % for comments. Anything to the right of % will be ignored.
There are two types of comments:
% line comment
and
%{
Block comment
%}
Bert
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