Humble patch submission

Hi, I've been using Lilypond for a longt ime now, and have recently run into (also) editting them with Vim. I've done that in the past, but am now starting to use Vim for editting Lilypond files more often, so I wanted to enable syntax coloring and keyword completion. I got that working, but I fo

When a song's composer and poet are the same person, why is the poet name initialized?

I have a friend who's a beginning songwriter and LilyPond user. After passing out his second song for review and comments, someone asked "How come you have your full name at the top right as composer, but only your initials at the top left as poet?" Hmm. We both thought initials for composer-as-po

Re: Humble patch submission

Hello Christ, thanks for the suggestion. The correct way to do this would be sending an email to the bug list, as an enhancement request with the patch included. Note that omitting the space after ~ is against semi-official style policies for LilyPond code. It improves readability and underst

Re: When a song's composer and poet are the same person, why is the poet name initialized?

Hi Karlin, If the text and music are by the same person, I often just write "Lyrics and Music by" or "Text and Music by" or whatever seems appropriate to the material. Hope that helps! Kieren. > On Jun 27, 2019, at 5:36 PM, Karlin High wrote: > > I have a friend who's a beginning songwriter a