Re: [Correction] Is there a bug in the way Lilypond handles SLURS?

2016-02-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.02.2016 um 17:09 schrieb N. Andrew Walsh: > (just saw that Urs replied. Here's hoping I'm not redundant!) > Nope. You delivered the link that I had already copied but forgot to paste ;-) ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: [Correction] Is there a bug in the way Lilypond handles SLURS?

2016-02-15 Thread N. Andrew Walsh
Hi Devin, Lilypond's syntax deviates from other programming languages in a subtle but significant way: certain characters -- namely brackets -- do not need to be explicitly nested inside one another. Rather, they occur at the points where their corresponding graphical object begins and ends. See h

Re: [Correction] Is there a bug in the way Lilypond handles SLURS?

2016-02-15 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Devin, you're welcome, but this is not a bug but a characteristic of LilyPond's syntax. Slurs (and beams) are not use in an "enclosing" way but are written after the note they affect. So the end of a slur is written after the final note. In your first example (the non-functional) the closing s

[Correction] Is there a bug in the way Lilypond handles SLURS?

2016-02-15 Thread Devin
[This is a correction of previous messsage -- I meant "slurs", not "staccato". SORRY!] Hi, I am working with Walter Bender on a visual programming language called "Music Blocks" (http://musicblocks.net). Neither of us know Lilypond well enough, so maybe someone on this list can help us out. As