Yes in truth the way programmers document/read
documents is add odds with tech writing. Tech writing
will choose to repeat thingsor give extra example so
as to be as clear and understandable as possible and
programmers want things not to be repeated and as
concise as possible.
I unfortunetly have
With several decades' of programming behind me, one of the first things
I look for in studying a new language is concise descriptions of the
syntax of the language and of the structure of well-formed programs.
It's also nice to get direction from experienced writers in the language
as to style,
> I really don't think it makes a big difference. If
> you want to
> submit a patch that changes all "should be"s to
> "must"s,
> I won't complain.
> >>> then it says:
> >>> "A .ly file contains any number of toplevel
> That's what the tutorial is for. I still don't
> understand what
> the di
On 31-May-05, at 7:53 PM, Aaron Mehl wrote:
I think we use "should be" and "must" fairly
interchangeably.
As a techwriter/user this confuses me. should be is
a much weaker expression, like it doesn't have to but
if you want.. must says that it is a requirement to
have on of these.
I really
same again yahoo sent it without my wanting to ..
>
> > I see a layout block has this replaced the
> \paper{} ?
>
> Kind-of. See the "Paper output" section in "Output
> formats".
I will.
> > with no includes and lyrics.
>
> In addition to reading the manual, you might want to
> look at
> som
> I think we use "should be" and "must" fairly
> interchangeably.
As a techwriter/user this confuses me. should be is
a much weaker expression, like it doesn't have to but
if you want.. must says that it is a requirement to
have on of these.
> > then it says:
> > "A .ly file contains any number
uhg I am using yahoo and hitting enter sent the email
in the midths of typing
If a file won't parse, then something else is wrong.
This is true but my only way of determining this is
by absolutly knowing what is an essential top level
block and what is not and their heirarchy. That is the
bea
Hi
When I was first learning lilypond I found most things
confusing. After all I was coming from Finale.
I also am a html/sgml docbook person and found the
structure of lilypond confusing. But that was then,
now it appears things have changed for the good,
better docs, more logical structure, etc.
On 31-May-05, at 1:07 PM, Aaron Mehl wrote:
I read the docs and I still am coming short:
The file structure page uses the phrase:
"music should be inside other expressions"
I gather it means music must be inside other
expressions.
I think we use "should be" and "must" fairly interchangeably.
When I was first learning to read/write lilypond, I found this site
http://ibiblio.org/mutopia/ to be very useful, since it has many
complete examples of several types of score.
Joe
Aaron Mehl wrote:
Well,
I read the docs and I still am coming short:
The file structure page uses the phrase
Well,
I read the docs and I still am coming short:
The file structure page uses the phrase:
"music should be inside other expressions"
I gather it means music must be inside other
expressions.
then it says:
"A .ly file contains any number of toplevel
expressions, where a toplevel expression is on
The file structure did it. I can't believe how much
lilypond has changed structurally.
I am so used to the old documentation I just didn't
know where to look.
great job.
Thanks
Aaron
>
> Please read the tutorial and the "File structure"
> section
> of "Running LilyPond". Then you should be able
On 31-May-05, at 11:01 AM, Aaron Mehl wrote:
I copied the template from the docs but it uses
relative mode whereas my original files use absolute.
In trying to remove the
melody = \relative c' {
lilypond choked.
What I need is a template with no this = that but a
score block with header, no
wow, it works out of the box with hebrew.
I am excited! thanks.
I infact accidently install 2.15 into root so I will
download a newer version and place it in my home.
Unfortunetly I still need an older version for
lilyxml...
That said. I have another problem.
all my old notation which is a book
What version of LilyPond? If version 2.4.x or earlier, did you read
about the file lilypond-profile in INSTALL.txt?
I recommend you to try the latest development version 2.5.xx instead,
which has support for Unicode (UTF-8) input and hopefully should handle
Hebrew without any problems.
/Mats
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