> I am new to Lilypond. Currently I am running the 1.3.46 version compiled for
> Windows. I believe that pedal marks were added from 1.3.44 onwards (from
> "Things recently done"), but how do I add them?
Unfortunately, the manual is incomplete and partly outdated.
The pedal marks are added with \sustaindown and \sustainup,
respectively.
> Also, how could I center a whole-bar rest in the bar? For example, in bars
> where the right-hand is playing nothing but the left-hand is playing
> something on the piano. These rests have a tendency to shift to the left of
> the bar.
This is in the manual: use R instead of r to code the rests.
> Some features (like turning on bar numbers. Btw, how do I make them
> visible?) were not documented in the manual lilypond.ps. Where could I find
> out about such other context properties?
Also in the manual: You add the Bar_number_engraver to the
Score context, i.e. add the following in your Mudela file:
\score{ ...
\paper{ ...
\translator { \ScoreContext
\consists "Bar_number_engraver";
}
}
}
In fact, bar numbers are included by default from
version 1.3.47 and later.
In general, one of the best documentation sources is the
large set of example files included in the source code
distribution. You could download the lilypond-1.3.xx.tar.gz
file corresponding to your release and extract the
directories input/test/ and mutopia/ in order to find
the example files. Also, take a look at the scores in
the Mutopia archive.
Happy Lilyponding
/Mats
