On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:23:54PM -0700, chip wrote: > Now I am looking through the 2.11 docs and searching (using my browsers > Find function) for Syntax and File Syntax and finding lots of entries > for Syntax but not File Syntax.
Oh bloody mao, here we go again. Look here guys. I get annoyed when I see people doing way too much effort. Chip and Jonathan were working way too hard on something so simple. Chip, read these 3 doc pages, and only these 3. Don't search for anything. Do not pass go. Do not collection $200. LM 2.3.1 Music expressions explained http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Music-expressions-explained LM 3.1.1 Introduction to the LilyPond file structure http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Introduction-to-the-LilyPond-file-structure#Introduction-to-the-LilyPond-file-structure LM 3.1.2 Score is a (single) compound musical expression http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/Score-is-a-_0028single_0029-compound-musical-expression#Score-is-a-_0028single_0029-compound-musical-expression Done that? Good. Now if you look me in the metaphorical eye and say "I don't see what's wrong with \score{ \expr1 \expr2 \layout{} } " then I will apologize for being curt. And then I'll listen to your suggestions for the docs. > As a noob to Lilypond I find delving through the Learning Manual, the > Notation Reference, Examples and Snippets Library a daunting task, to try > to figure out something that turned out to be so simple. It appears to me > that these documents are not written for the complete noob like me, but > for someone who already has a clue. Start reading from LM 2. From the beginning. Forget whatever you think you know about lilypond. Your experience with the 2.10 docs is counter-productive here. Oh, you might also find this helpful: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-learning/About-the-documentation#About-the-documentation > There are going to be noobs out here who will ask completely inane > or simple questions, to you guys the answers to which will seem to be > obvious and easy to find, but that's because you know the lingo and the > manuals inside-out. We don't know the right words or the correct way to > look for the answers. Until I started using Lilypond I'd never seen the > word grob or glob or whatever it is, and don't know what it is, > therefore I wouldn't know how to ask a question that might refer to one. > Well I suppose enough for now, I hope the examples help shed some > light on the situation. I've been able to find pretty much everything > needed so far by digging around in the manuals, but it does take a lot > of digging. That's because you're digging. The LM does *exactly* what you want; the only problem is that you think you know something about lilypond from 2.10, and haven't sat down to read the 2.11 LM front to cover. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user