On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 3:12 AM, Andrew Bernard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Harold, > > Welcome to the Pond. >
Andrew, thank you, and thank you for this informative reply. I learned a lot. > Lilypond does a pretty good job (actually, not just pretty good, but amazing) > left to it's own devices, but music scoring is so rich that there are > situations where you may need to help it out a bit. The virtue of lilypond is > that there are tweaks and adjustments available from very simple to really > advanced using Scheme, the lilypond extension language. > I am actually a LISP programmer by trade, so this sounds like good news to me. Where can I find documentation for things like `Beam.positions`? > It's a good idea to always use bar checks at the end of a measure. Saves many > headaches. > Good to know. I will make a habit of this, then. > As always I really recommend using the new development versions, they are > very stable and it is only the conventional open source tradition of self > deprecation that labels them as 'unstable' (but even this view is > controversial on the list). There's so many more features and I hammer > 2.19.81 professionally all day and have not been able to crash it. > I did not realize that the latest stable version is from 2014 (!). I have upgraded. The latest version I could find was 2.19.80 (http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-64/), where did you get 2.19.81 from? > As a final point, all the beam slopes here I find personally quite ugly and > ragged. There are techniques to address this, but for another email. > When this becomes my biggest problem, I'll be sure to ask! Kind thanks again for your time and insight, -Harold _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
