On Thursday 23 November 2006 20:29, Arjan Bos wrote: > On 23 nov 2006, at 3:10, Graham Percival wrote: > > I think this is referring to people with 6-fingers. Typing e8_1 > > means "first finger"; typing e8_"1" prints "1" as a TextScript. > > > >> But what are martians and why are they playing my music? Shouldn't > >> this message simply state that a 6 is a strange number to indicate > >> a finger with? > > > > Yes, but somebody was feeling creative when they wrote that > > code. :) What message do you propose to change it with? > > I thought about that and I know that it is non-sensical to have 6 in > there as a finger indication. But I decided to put it in and it is > right to put it in for my purpose, otherwise it wouldn't be in. So I > feel that this message can be safely removed from lilypond. Oh, and > 2.8 didn't have that message and I did not confuse myself with six > fingers either there ;-) > > So please remove it, or if it is felt that it is a just message, > please state that it something like: > Warning: fingering notation for finger number <n>.
Maybe also add a constructive hint, something like: Warning: fingering notation for finger number <n>. Did you intend to use \markup? > where <n> is greater than 5, or 4 depending on the instrument being > described. In guitar music, we normally only deal with four fingers > as the thumb is at the other side of the neck. So here it would be > appropriate to give the message at finger number 5. Since it's > clearly instrument dependent, and lilypond doesn't know about the > instrument that the music is intended for, it is a strong indication > that you cannot tell when to display this warning. So this is in > favour of removing it. BTW, I think I have heard of a professional pianist who had six fingers on one of his hands; he would have a valid excuse for writing 6. Luckily for him, it is fairly easy to manually \override Fingering.text to a similar function that doesn't give a warning. -- Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
