On Wednesday, 20 May 1998, Marcel Gerrits writes:
> Hi,
>
> I've a small question:
>
> I wrote the attached mudela file. When I run ly2dvi, a lot of errors
>
> are reported (lilypond does not accept 'a and 'b (I guess it should).
>
> Why doesn't this work ?
>
> Best regards, Marcel
You're probably using a post-pl62 version of LilyPond. It's in the NEWS
pl 62.hwn1
- bf jcn8: deep copy Scope (ughugh. I want GC!)
- cleaned Identifier
- mudela 0.1.14 'a -> a,
but perhaps we could have documented it a bit more prominently...
We found the significance of whitespace in Mudela ugly, and even harmful
when you're typing a lot of music.
In addition, we introduced 'relative octaves' (see Documentation/relative-
octaves.pod), which not only save you typing a lot of quotes and comma's
in most cases, but also let typing errors really stand-out.
The --excusez le mot -- preferred post-pl62 notation of your example
would be:
\score {
% \melodic {
\melodic\relative c {
\clef "violin";
\meter 4/4;
% \octave c';
% 'a 'b c d e f g a b c' d' e'
a' b c d e f g a b c d e
}
}
Jan.
PS:
* bin/convert-mudela converts 'c -> c, for you
* lilypond -Q helps you convert absolute music to relative
(available again in pl67)
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | LilyPond - The GNU music typesetter
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