On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Philip Thomas <philip.tho...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > Dear Christ,
> I just opened your email and have saved the attachment. I will find out in > the coming hours whether it does indeed help in dealing with the problems > that I'm encountering. Ok, good luck! > But I wanted to say, now, how much I appreciate your > digging it out. I guess you must be the user forum administrator or > something like that, but even with good record keeping it must have taken > quite some effort on your part to find something submitted 6 years ago. No problem at all! Since you quoted part of the original mail, I could type that into GMail's search box, and it came up with the original mail instantly ;-) And, I'm just a regular user, not an administrator _at all_. > I am a comparative beginner, and I have been amazed at how ready the > LilyPond community is to answer questions, even when asking them displays > ignorance about the documentation. That's true, and kudos to all for: - Making LilyPond - Making LilyPond possible - Making LilyPond progress - Making docs (as a programmer, who hates making docs, I know how hard it is to describe anything at all, esp. if it needs to be read by humans ;-) ) - Replying on this nice mailing list - Etc - Etc > In fact I do try to help myself as much > as I can by researching the documentation and the forum, but there is a > learning curve that one needs to persist in climbing, and I suspect most > people (particularly non-programmer types) need some help from others in > order to succeed. Yes, you need to - learn it, and - keep up with it I tend to be such a casual user (Oh, a song we're singing in the choir has been hand-written 20+ years ago, has been copied 30-ish times and can now hardly be read. Let me-re-engrave that...) this I almost always need to re-learn Lily to get it right :-( Well, I guess I need to make some base files to get started, then! > Both you and, of course, Markus Schneider with his > original post (even though I don't know whether he is still an active user), > are generous sources of such help to me. No problem! > Have a great weekend. You too! > I'll be spending a large part of my weekend polishing > up a special "edition" of a piece for the choir to sing at my baby > grandson's baptism in a few weeks' time. At my own (girl's) baptism, me, my wife and 2 good friends sang a song as well. It gives such a nice personal touch to the baptism! Congrats on your baby grandson! > I hope the attachment you sent will > help me to sort out (most particularly) an ugly near-collision between volta > brackets and the key signature, but even if it doesn't work, I already feel > mightily heartened by your kindness. Thank you so much. Good luck, hope it helps! If not, perhaps other people on the list can look it over sometimes? Christ van Willegen _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
