On 5/5/11 10:46 AM, "James Lowe" <james.l...@datacore.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm looking at tidying up some parts of this in the NR (not changing anything > technically) and would like a clarification on something. > > We state: > > --snip-- > > The \makeStringTuning function is used to create a string tuning > without setting the stringTunings property in the current context. > The arguments to makeStringTuning are the symbol to be > used for the new string tuning and a chord construct used > to define the tuning. > > --snip-- > > Further up we say (I am paraphrasing) > > --snip-- > > \contextStringTuning takes two arguments: > > > 1. The symbol in which the string tuning will be stored. > > 2. The chord construct that defines the pitches of each string in the > tuning. This must be in absolute octave mode, > The string with the highest number > (generally the lowest string) must come first in the chord. > > --snip-- > > My question is does \makeStringTuning also require the pitches to be absolute > mode as well? Yes. The chord constructs for defining the tunings are identical for \contextStringTuning and \makeStringTuning. Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel