Joe Neeman wrote: >>> I don't think it's possible to use lilypond without lots of painful >>> research. I haven't been able to find an index, or google search >>> that will reliably return simple information. >> >> In my opinion, the most important piece of missing documentation is >> one that describes the basic syntactic and grammatic structure of >> lilypond. I have learned quite a lot by following examples, but I >> still don't really understand what lots of things do. Whenever >> anyone learns a language like C, there are lots of documents/text >> books that say things like: "this is an expression", "this is the >> structure of a funcion call", "this is how to write a function >> declaration", etc. In lilypond, all the examples say is: "this is >> how to change the stem width". They don't say "this is the general >> format for changing an engraving property" or "this is how the >> \score block is structured". >> >> If anyone else is interested, I think we should try to write a >> comprehensive guide to the stucture of the lilypond language. I'd do >> it myself, but I don't know most of the answers...
This is exactly what I'm looking for indeed. Maybe in five years I'll be able to help in writing this... Cheers, H. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
