always specify initial duration within { ... } ?

2010-04-26 Thread Mark Polesky
The implicit initial duration of a { music } block is 4 (quarter note), unless that block is preceded by a block which ends with a different duration, even if the preceding music block is within another \book scope included from a different file! The docs don't do a good job of addressing this,

Re: always specify initial duration within { ... } ?

2010-04-26 Thread Trevor Daniels
Mark Polesky wrote Monday, April 26, 2010 7:33 AM Both LM 1.2.1 Simple notation and NR 1.2.1 Writing rhythms include these two sentences: If the duration is omitted, it is set to the previously entered duration. The default for the first note is a quarter note. I'd like to reword both

Re: always specify initial duration within { ... } ?

2010-04-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/26/10 12:33 AM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Both LM 1.2.1 Simple notation and NR 1.2.1 Writing rhythms include these two sentences: If the duration is omitted, it is set to the previously entered duration. The default for the first note is a quarter

Re: always specify initial duration within { ... } ?

2010-04-26 Thread James Lowe
hello. Carl Sorensen wrote: I don't think that removing the statement that the default for the first note is a quarter note is a good idea. I think it would be far better to add two sentences at the end of the existing paragraph that say To avoid confusion, it is recommended that the first

Re: PATCH: Doc: Reorganize music functions material.

2010-04-26 Thread Mark Polesky
Just noticed some markup type-predicates not listed in type-p-name-alist: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob;f=scm/markup.scm;h=dfa349e;hb=HEAD#l458 Should I define-public them and add them to the alist? - Mark ___

Re: PATCH: Doc: Reorganize music functions material.

2010-04-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/26/10 9:47 AM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Just noticed some markup type-predicates not listed in type-p-name-alist: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob;f=scm/markup.scm;h=d fa349e;hb=HEAD#l458 Should I define-public them and add them to the alist?

Re: PATCH: Doc: Reorganize music functions material.

2010-04-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 06:34:53PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: Notwithstanding that specific issue, any suggestions, objections, etc? I object to the scheme indentation -- to the extent that we have a standard for lilypond input files (which isn't much), we follow normal scheme indentation. And

Re: always specify initial duration within { ... } ?

2010-04-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:33:02PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: Both LM 1.2.1 Simple notation and NR 1.2.1 Writing rhythms it may be more accurate to say each time lilypond is invoked, the default duration for the first note read by the parser is a quarter note. Rhetorical: what's a

Re: PATCH: Doc: Reorganize music functions material.

2010-04-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/26/10 10:21 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 06:34:53PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: Notwithstanding that specific issue, any suggestions, objections, etc? I object to the scheme indentation -- to the extent that we have a standard for

Re: PATCH: Doc: Reorganize music functions material.

2010-04-26 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: On 4/26/10 10:21 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: I object to the scheme indentation -- to the extent that we have a standard for lilypond input files (which isn't much), we follow normal scheme

Re: PATCH: Doc: Reorganize music functions material.

2010-04-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/26/10 11:19 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: On 4/26/10 10:21 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: I object to the scheme indentation -- to the extent that we have a standard

Re: [PATCH] Re: syntax change for \cresc

2010-04-26 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Sonntag, 25. April 2010 14:10:40 schrieben Sie: [Dreams\] It would be great to have a simpler, more user-friendly way to align text with dynamics. [\Dreams] Absolutely. You can't imagine how long i fought to find proper ways to align pp and pp sempre properly with each other! You know

Re: [PATCH] Re: syntax change for \cresc

2010-04-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/26/10 2:24 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 25. April 2010 14:10:40 schrieben Sie: Should I say that it would be useful for many people to see this in the LSR and in the doc? Yes, I totally understand. However, the LSR is (still?) based on lilypond

beaming question

2010-04-26 Thread Mark Polesky
Did I do something weird? These eighth notes are unbeamed for me. Are they supposed to be? \version 2.13.19 { c''8 c'' } - Mark ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: beaming question

2010-04-26 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 4/26/10 4:11 PM, Mark Polesky markpole...@yahoo.com wrote: Did I do something weird? These eighth notes are unbeamed for me. Are they supposed to be? \version 2.13.19 { c''8 c'' } - Mark The autobeam is still active when the music ends, because it wants to end eighth note

*-headword.ly files look weird

2010-04-26 Thread Mark Polesky
Why are so many of the Documentation/snippets/new/*-headword.ly files coded in absolute mode with one note per line? - Mark ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel