On Friday, 3 April 1998, Peter Chubb writes:
> Jan> Well, Lily is a little bit confused because you ask her to put
> Jan> two double bar symbols one one staff.
>
> When two voices share a staff, surely the symbols ought to be merged?
Yes, it's a bug.
> >> puts the bar lines in, but with too little space around them, and
> >> seems to assume that such bar lines do not terminate accidentals.
>
> Jan> too little space?
>
> Yes, the notes just after the barline are almost touching the
> barline. The stem is so close that it almost requires a magnuifying
> glass to see they're not actually touching (when printed at 600dpi).
Mmm, there's some severe hacking going on in the spring spacer,
there was a fix for this (columns should never touch) in pl 45...
> Jan> i've made some 'corrections' and appended this new version. see
> Jan> below.
>
> Is there documentation on any of this, yet? You're using features
No, not really. There's a great need for documentation. I've just
started on an introduction document, but its not of any use yet.
Apart from the source-code, all new features do get 'documented' in
some example, in input/* or mutopia/*, because we need to test them...
> that are not in the mudela document, and are not in any of the
> examples.
That's a reason why i made the full corrections and sent them to the
mailing list :-)
btw, what features are you talking about?
> Jan> % this is what you (logically) had:
> Jan> % \partial 2; \skip 2*1; | \skip 2*4; | \partial 2*3; \skip 2*3;
> Jan> % but shouldn't the actual musical *definition* be this:
> Jan> \meter 1/2;\skip 2*1; | \meter 4/2;\skip 2*4; | \meter 3/2;\skip 2*3;
> Jan> % but then without *displaying* the meters (see paper block below)?
> Jan> \bar "||";
>
> Well, not exactly. The piece is in 4/2 time, with an anacrucis at
> the start of each line, the duration for the anacrucis taken from the end
> of the same line. Your amended time puts the stresses in the
> wrong places.
>
> I.e., each line after the first is supposed to be
> weak | strong weak medium weak | strong weak medium ||
> The definition you give yields
> strong | strong weak medium weak | strong weak weak ||
I've never seen this kind of music...
If the '|| weak |' somehow is the fourth beat of the 4/2,
what does the 'double barline' really mean (its not an end of measure)?
And what about accidentals, an that 'fourth' beat?
Anacrusis?, it seems i have to consult some music theory.
> I guess it doesn't matter if I'm just producing printed music (if it
> *looks* right the musicians will *play* it right).
>
> BTW, the version of diademata you sent back doesn't work. I get:
>
> GNU LilyPond 0.1.29 #1/FlowerLib 1.1.31 #1
Oops, ahum.
Development is at pl 52 currently, and its going quite fast. Surely
there are some new features that you haven't seen!
That's why you have too little space around the bars, it was fixed in pl 45.
> ....
> sr/local/share/lilypond/init//performer.ly]]][diademata.lydiademata.ly: 12: e
+ rro
> r: Unknown escaped string: `voiceone':
> \voiceone
these are defined in the new init/property.ly, you can copy these into
your .ly; but you should consider upgrading...
voiceone = {
\type Voice = one
\skip 1*0;
\property Voice.ydirection = \up
}
voicetwo = {
\type Voice = two
\skip 1*0;
\property Voice.ydirection = \down
}
Greetings,
Jan.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | LilyPond - The GNU music typesetter
http://www.digicash.com/~jan | http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond
