What do \[ and \] do?

2012-09-11 Thread Ian Hulin
Hi folks,

I just noticed mention of these in the GLISS pre/post/neutral command
thread.

What do these commands do?

If there's discussion about converting them to modern syntax,
presumably they'll need documenting etc. and we'll need to describe
them in terms thickos like me can understand on first reading.

If they're difficult to describe for my kind of audience, then maybe
they're too obscure to need polishing up, sanitizing and documenting,
and having regression tests written for them.

Just a thought,

Cheers,

Ian


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Re: What do \[ and \] do?

2012-09-11 Thread Marek Klein
Hello,

2012/9/11 Ian Hulin i...@hulin.org.uk

 Hi folks,

 I just noticed mention of these in the GLISS pre/post/neutral command
 thread.

 What do these commands do?


http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/ancient-notation_002d_002dcommon-features#ligatures

HTH

Marek Klein
http://gregoriana.sk
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Re: What do \[ and \] do?

2012-09-11 Thread James
Hey Thicko! ;)

On 11 September 2012 17:15, Ian Hulin i...@hulin.org.uk wrote:
 Hi folks,

 I just noticed mention of these in the GLISS pre/post/neutral command
 thread.

 What do these commands do?

 If there's discussion about converting them to modern syntax,
 presumably they'll need documenting etc. and we'll need to describe
 them in terms thickos like me can understand on first reading.

 If they're difficult to describe for my kind of audience, then maybe
 they're too obscure to need polishing up, sanitizing and documenting,
 and having regression tests written for them.

 Just a thought,


I found a reference here under Ligatures known issues (for Ancient Music)

'The syntax still uses the deprecated infix style \[ music expr \].
For consistency reasons, it will eventually be changed to postfix
style note\[ ... note\].'

Actually they are only documented for Ancient  Music as far as I can tell.

Also in Appendix C of the LilyPond Grammar in the NR

--snip--

332 command_element: command_event
  333| \[
  334| \]
  335| \
  336| '|'
--snip--

But that probably wasn't what you meant was it?

:/

James

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