On Monday, 26 October 1998, Kai Schuetz writes:
> Since yesterday I am using lilypond, and I must say that I am already a
> fan of it (although the syntax sometimes seems a bit odd to me).
> Not only that high-quality output, but also a midi-file is generated at
> once, that's increadible !
Thanks!
> But of course I've got some questions:
Ah, i could have known that.
> 1.) How do I enter the following:
>
> ----------
> | | | |
> o| o| | o|
> o| o| o|
>
> (the actual notes don't play a role, important is the mixture of one and
> two voices in one pair of [])
>
> I would expect something like
> [c8 <c a> a <c a>]
> but that doesn't work for me (parse-error, lilypond 0.1.61, FlowerLib
very close, try:
[c8 <c a> a <c a]>
notice the last two characters (This is a peculiarity of Lily, the
starting and ending of beams are are tied to a note as 'requests'.
If you type .. c>], the ']' is orphaned).
On a related note, it's often handier to type something like:
a = \notes{ [c8 c s c] }
b = \notes{ s8 a a a }
\score{ <\a \b> }
> 1.1.42), and I didn't find an example in the "examples".
Check out mutopia/J.S.Bach/Solo-Cello-Suites/. By the way, your
Lily is very old, a lot has happened since then, esp., there
now is quite some documentation. You should check out v1.0.17 from
ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/v1.0
or any GNU mirror (hopefully). The documentation can be found on
the web pages too, see www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond.
> (BTW., if a note is longer than an 1/8 and I use [], lilypond segfaults
> instead of displaying an error message. But maybe this is already fixed
> in newer versions ???)
Yes.
> 2.) Is it possible somehow to set a fermat over a /bar ???
No, (shame).
> 3.) How do I set a "Da Capo al Fine" and a "Fine" over bars ?
Only in text. Lily doesn't handle logical music flow yet.
> 4.) The first "line" of music is always indented. I want it aligned, how
> ?
Something like:
\score{
\paper{
indent = 0.0\pt;
}
}
Greetings,
Jan.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/lilypond
