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Re: lilypond manual intro
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David Kastrup |
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Re: lilypond manual intro |
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Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:19:36 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 06:20:09PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>>
>> Karl Berry wrote Friday, September 07, 2012 11:45 PM
>>
>> > The first example there looks good (and is in fact what I sent her).
>> > But then the second example, instead of showing how to typeset other
>> > kinds of notation, goes into \relative. Is this really the next thing
>> > people want from a tutorial? I would have expected to see how to choose
>> > a different clef or time signature or type of note or ... anything but
>> > that.
>>
>> Again, a reasonable point to make, but as pretty well all the following
>> examples are in relative mode and as this is usually the best one for
>> beginners to use it seemed best to get this out of the way early, rather
>> than teaching absolute entry only to ditch it a few pages later.
>
> Yes. If anything, I think we should consider making the very
> first example \relative.
> (I'd also like to have an \absolute keyword so that doc examples
> using it could be more explicit, but that would need to wait until
> we have a good way to discuss syntax changes)
Well,
absolute =
#(define-music-function (parser location m) (ly:music?)
#{ \transpose f f $m #})
\relative c' { c f b \absolute { c' d' e' } c }
It is not impervious against notename changes (I think I will at some
point work on the notename language of #{...#} to correspond to the
language at the time of definition rather than of use), but if required,
it could be written equivalently in Scheme.
I just don't think it a fabulous idea.
--
David Kastrup
- lilypond manual intro, Karl Berry, 2012/09/08
- Re: lilypond manual intro, Trevor Daniels, 2012/09/08
- Re: lilypond manual intro, Janek Warchoł, 2012/09/08
- Re: lilypond manual intro, Karl Berry, 2012/09/08
- Re: lilypond manual intro, Janek Warchoł, 2012/09/08
- Re: lilypond manual intro, Graham Percival, 2012/09/09
- Re: lilypond manual intro, Karl Berry, 2012/09/09
- Re: lilypond manual intro, Janek Warchoł, 2012/09/10
Re: lilypond manual intro, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2012/09/10