Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-12 Thread James Harkins
Along with the existing documentation about overrides and tweaks, it would be helpful to have a page -- which is easy to find -- listing all the data types and the syntax to write them. Example: Today, I was trying to write my own \override for the first time. To make matters more challenging,

Barline type before \time change

2012-04-12 Thread Urs Liska
Hello list, I'm sorry, but I can't find the relevant documentation. I want to change lilyPond's default behaviour and tell it to use || barlines before \time changes instead of normal ones. Although it is quite easy to do this manually, I'd like to know where and how I could change this

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
James Harkins wrote Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:32 PM Along with the existing documentation about overrides and tweaks, it would be helpful to have a page -- which is easy to find -- listing all the data types and the syntax to write them. This existing page seems to be what you are

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-12 Thread James Harkins
At Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:55:24 +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: Along with the existing documentation about overrides and tweaks, it would be helpful to have a page -- which is easy to find -- listing all the data types and the syntax to write them. This existing page seems to be what you are

Dynamic context that can follow system breaks?

2012-04-12 Thread James Harkins
I'm sure somebody has had to do this before: place dynamics under a staff so that all the dynamics in one system are the same distance below the staff, but that distance can be different from one system to the next. At first, I attached the dynamics directly to the notes and found that the

Re: Barline type before \time change

2012-04-12 Thread Tim Roberts
Urs Liska wrote: I'm sorry, but I can't find the relevant documentation. I want to change lilyPond's default behaviour and tell it to use || barlines before \time changes instead of normal ones. The two things are not connected. LilyPond does not automatically force a bar line when the \time

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-12 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:32:28 +0800 From: James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com To: lily-users lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference Message-ID: 87iph5ulcj.wl%jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
James Harkins wrote Thursday, April 12, 2012 5:08 PM Still, it might be helpful to link to this page from some other places, say, Tweaking methods. For instance, ~~~ The general syntax of this command is: \override Context.LayoutObject #'layout-property = #value This will set the

Re: Dynamic context that can follow system breaks?

2012-04-12 Thread James Harkins
At Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:29:14 +0800, James Harkins wrote: I'm sure somebody has had to do this before: place dynamics under a staff so that all the dynamics in one system are the same distance below the staff, but that distance can be different from one system to the next. At first, I