Like David said earlier, you actually have 2 implicit scores.
\version "2.22.2"
% score 1 that yields the warning and prints nothing (hence no key signature)
\key d \major
% score 2
{ a }
This works:
\version "2.22.2"
\relative {
\key d \major a
}
From: lilypond-user <[email protected]>
on behalf of Andrew Musselman <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, June 3, 2022 at 1:16 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Key and tie questions
As for the key signature, I am still seeing nothing about key in the pdf when I
do this to remove all complexity:
\version "2.22.2"
\key d \major
{
a
}
Log says:
$ lilypond -f pdf the-mountain.ly<http://the-mountain.ly>
GNU LilyPond 2.22.2 (running Guile 2.2)
Processing `the-mountain.ly<http://the-mountain.ly>'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...
the-mountain.ly:2:1: warning: skipping zero-duration score
\key d \major
the-mountain.ly:2:1: warning: to suppress this, consider adding a spacer rest
\key d \major
Interpreting music...
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Converting to `the-mountain.pdf'...
Success: compilation successfully completed
On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 10:09 AM Andrew Musselman
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Okay subtle but I do see the difference; thank you
On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 10:07 AM David Kastrup
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Andrew Musselman
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
> I got a beam by adding `\(` and `\)` around the b and c, looks good.
That's not a beam but a phrasing slur, and at that point in the score, a
phrasing slur seems like an odd choice: it usually extends over whole
phrases rather than joining two notes. You probably want a straight
slur, gotten with `(` and `)`. A beam is a straight line substituting
for flags on a note stem and connecting several notes of length 1/8 or
shorter.
--
David Kastrup
