Hello I hope this is the right place to point out some errors in the LilyPond Learning Manual. I'm a beginner to LilyPond so I may have got the wrong end of the stick about some things. If so, please tell me!
Here goes: 1. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/building-a-score-from- scratch On this page, in the variable called 'ManualTwoMusic', we see the text 'e8~ ees16', which seems to mean an E tied to an E flat. A warning about an unterminated tie is given during the compilation process, and the score that results (and the example score in the docs) both show an E natural followed by an E flat at that point. So I think the tilde symbol ~ for the tie is just wrong here. 2. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/fixing-overlapping- notation In a few places on this page, we see this sort of thing: '{ e''8 e'' e'' e'' e'' e'' e'' e'' f''2 g'' }' when in the example score in the docs, we see a row of Es all in the same octave. When you compile the code given above, it puts each note up two octaves in relation to the last. The examples on this page are full of this kind of thing. 3. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/style-sheets In the code immediately under this text... 'Let’s copy the current ‘definitions.ily’ to ‘web-publish.ily’ and modify that. Since this music is aimed at producing a pdf which will be displayed on the screen, we’ll also increase the overall size of the output.' ... the first line of code has the comment '%%% definitions.ily', when actually it should be '%%% web-publish.ily' (as that's the name of the file people following the text have been instructed to edit). 4. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/other-sources-of- information In the GNU/Linux information, the path name INSTALLDIR/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ is given. In fact, it should begin INSTALLDIR/LilyPond/... (i.e. LilyPond in mixed case). There was another one but I've forgotten it! I hope this helps, and as I say if I'm just wrong about all this please fix me. Thanks Neil _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
