Il giorno lun 7 nov 2016 alle 12:03, mclaren <metachroma...@gmail.com>
ha scritto:
The Lilypond documentation is poorly organized and extremely
incomplete. For
exmaple, I was only only able to find out about tie direction control
by
glancing at an unrelated list of tweaks. Tie direction control \tieUp
and
\tieDown should be featured prominently in the Lilypond Learning
Manual in
the section on ties.
Before jumping to that wrong conclusion I suggest that you check if
you've done your work.
I guess that you've not understood how manuals are organized and how to
search in them, because it took me 10 seconds to find what you were
looking for in this thread.
My suggestions:
1. The most complete manual is the Notation Reference, the place where
you should expect to find all the information needed to produce the
notation. The Learning Manual is only a gentle introduction to
LilyPond; it's not supposed to contain all the information.
2. Start your search from the manual index:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/lilypond-index.html
If you search R and "rests" you'll get here:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/writing-rests.html#rests
Scroll down the end of the chapter and you find:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Known issues and warnings
There is no fundamental limit to rest durations (both in terms of
longest and shortest), but the number of glyphs is limited: there are
rests from 128th to maxima (8× whole).
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Pretty easy.
Same for \tieUp and \tieDown.
I've read lots of manuals and documentation and I've not found anything
better than LilyPond's documentation. Other people in this list
expressed the same opinion in the past.
Cheers
Federico (LilyPond user since 8 years)
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