"Peter Gentry" <peter.gen...@sunscales.co.uk> writes: > Having had my share of gripes re the manuals I am now a "born again" > supporter - they are great (not perfect) but great. > > I recommend that you download all the relevant manuals as pdfs to a > folder withing your Lilypond data file group and use the > advanced search to check through all the manuals when you want some > information. As an example I noticed that \markuplines now > produces an error message - one quick search for \markuplines found > the changes manual which explained a rename - took about 20 > seconds (mostly slow grey cell time).
Well, it is probably hard to beat those 20 seconds, but in a pinch: you know this worked under 2.14, so slap a \version "2.14.2" on your file and run convert-ly -ed on it. Chances are that convert-ly will fix the problem or at least mention some useful thought about it. > The notation manual is particularly good - the learning manual is fine > never seen a problem with writing exclusively in absolute. > > Like most normal people I find relative hard to get my head round and > always end up with the wrong octave somewhere or other usually > ending up beyond the range of the human ear. If you import music from > other programs absolute is the way to go - why is relative > favoured so much? It's nice for mostly scale-based sequences. > Imagine reading a printed score if it used relative notation (if that > were possible). Staffless neumes. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
