Am 24.04.2017 um 03:35 schrieb Margaret Voorhaar: > Hi Hans, > Thank-you very much for responding to my first efforts at learning Lilypond. > > I am going to take advantage of your kindness and submit my next conundrum to > you. > > I have written a flute melody which is is complete at 32 bars in length. Is > it too late to integrate a second flute part beneath this?
No, not at all. It is one of the beauties of text-based work that you will very rarely run into such a situation. While in a graphical program adding something "after the fact" may indeed break things, in a text based program the whole text is considered newly upon each compilation. > > I have tried following the various directives from the youtube tutorials on > to the Lilypond manuals and cannot manage to add an extra line after the > fact. Is this too hard for a beginner such as myself? > > Thank-you for taking the time to respond. > :) margaret. Port Stanley, ON, Canada > > Here is a bit of the code: > > \version "2.18.2-1" > % this to be added to Oogway's assent. > > \header { > > title = "Alex's Dance" > composer = "Margaret" > > } > > \relative c'' > > { > > \tempo "Lively" > \clef "treble" > \key d\minor > \time 3/8 > \tempo "Lively" > > d8( f8 a8) | %m1 > g4( f8 | %m2 > g4 f8 | %m3 > g4 a8) | %m4 > > What you are doing is writing a "music expression" at the top level of your input file. This is fine for simple use cases (like a plain melody) but should be extended for more complex scores. Your code will implicitly be expanded by LilyPoind to (I'm leaving out many things): \score { \new Staff \relative c'' { % your music } } The first thing you can do is give the music expression a name (or: store it as a variable: fluteOne = \relative c'' { % flute one music goes here } \score { \new Staff \fluteOne } This should produce the same score as previously. In order to add a second staff you create a second variable fluteTwo and extend the score block to: \score { << \new Staff \fluteOne \new Staff \fluteTwo >> } The << >> tells LilyPond to treat the elements within the construct as *parallel*, so the two new Staff elements will be placed below each other. You should try this out and then (or before) read through http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/how-lilypond-input-files-work HTH Urs > > > > > >> On Apr 10, 2017, at 4:22 PM, Hans Åberg <haber...@telia.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On 10 Apr 2017, at 00:47, Margaret Voorhaar <margaretvoorh...@yahoo.com> >>> wrote: >>> Even though it appears that I have saved my Lilypond file as a desktop pdf >>> on my mac, my score becomes integrated with the email addresses etc when I >>> go to send or print. Can I sent this score as an attachment, just as I do >>> my Word Docs and photos? >> In Mail, just write the letter, and then drop into the PDF or whatever where >> you want it. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user -- u...@openlilylib.org https://openlilylib.org http://lilypondblog.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user