Hi Carl, 2018-04-25 13:26 GMT+02:00 Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu>: > Evan, > > Thanks for your feedback. Feedback from new users is important for improving > the Learning Manual.
Indeed. > There is a point that I was trying to make with these changes, without > jumping right out and saying it (because I couldn’t find a good place to jump > out and say it). In LilyPond, *ALL* extra things that apply to a note are > added *after* a note, not before. To be complete. There's one exception I'm aware of: ligatures: \[ g' c, a' f d' \] > And they are *not* added after a "note pitch". A note consists of a pitch > plus a duration. For a given note, either the pitch or the duration can be > implicit, which means they are not included in the input but instead get > their value from the previous note. Following the note, we get all the > modifiers. > > This pattern needs to be understood to be successful in working with > LilyPond. Once you understand this, it's clear that you can't use the ABC > notation of enclosing a series of notes in parentheses. Reading this thread I looked for a LM section explaining this postfix-syntax and couldn't find any, did I overlook something? If not, think it should be inserted in section LM 3. Fundamental concepts 3.1 How LilyPond input files work My proposal: %%%%%%%% proposal-start LM 3.1.4 Attaching other elements to a note - postfix-syntax Writing a note means to enter a pitch with a duration (which may be implicit). Ofcourse several other elements may belong to this note, like fingerings, articulations, slurs, ties, text etc. All those elements are _attached_ to the note. An example in pseudo-code: Note-of-pitch-c'-and-duration-8 with fingering 1 with articulation tenuto with starting slur with starting tie with text 'what-ever-remark' Attaching elements in this mannor is called postfix-syntax. The above pseudo-code-example would be done in LilyPond-syntax as { c'8-1---(-~-\markup "what-ever-remark" %% end Slur c'-) } The "-"-sign inserts the elements into the list of elements attached to this note. Ofcourse all those "-"-signs are probably hard to read, so for convenience most of them can be omitted. Above can be rewritten as: { c'8-1--(~\markup "what-ever-remark" c') } LM 3.1.5 On the un-nestedness of brackets and ties %%%%%%%% proposal-end Ofcourse this only a sketch. Probably links to further explanations should be added. etc Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user