On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Mark Polesky <markpole...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Federico Bruni wrote: > > from my privileged position of newbie ;-) > > I have a suggestion for a very tiny edit in the Notation > > Reference which might ease the understanding for new users. > > > > This is the page (section Selected Snippets): > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Inside-the-staff#Fingering-instructions > > > > What is missing there, IMHO, is a clear statement like > > "left-hand fingerings must be entered within a chord construct > > <> (i.e.: even single notes must be enclosed by < >)". > > > > There is a similar sentence in the right-hand fingering chapter: > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Common-notation-for-fretted-strings#Right_002dhand-fingerings > > > > So why don't you add in the left-hand as well? > > > > I've lost hours trying to figure out why left orientation worked > > just for chords and not for single notes. > > That sentence would have saved me a lot of time and frustration. > > Sorry to hear about your frustrations -- I totally understand! And > thanks (very much) for alerting us to a potential source of > confusion. Remember that LilyPond is still a work-in-progress, and > everyone can help! We usually try to clarify sources of confusion > pretty quickly, so these reports are useful. However, it's better > to offer suggestions like this to the developers' mailing list at > lilypond-de...@gnu.org. > archive - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/ > subscribe - http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel > > I guess the best place to add this would be in the snippet called > "Controlling the placement of chord fingerings" in the "Fingering > instructions" section. Probably the title should be changed to > "Controlling the placement of fingerings", because apparently the > placement of single-note fingerings is also dependent on the <...> > construct. The snippet *does* provide examples of single notes > enclosed in <...>, but I admit it would be easy for a novice to > overlook the significance of this. > > Ok I've updated two of those snippets in LSR to give this explicit warning, something that gave me fits when I was working on the fretted strings section last year, too. We added the example with the single notes in chords at some point but a warning is appropriate here. The changes should make it into the development docs in the next couple of days, if I understand the way this works. Best, Jon -- Jonathan Kulp http://www.jonathankulp.com
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