On Wednesday 14 September 2005 15.09, Trent Johnston wrote: > Hello all again, > > I've been using lilypond on and off for a couple of years now. Usually I > get turned off when trying to tweak a score to make the output better. > > I've read the manual dozens of times for each version.. but always get > tripped up with the \overrides \contexts etc... I'm a musician not a > computer programmer so navigating and working how to put things together at > times overloads my brain and I tend to stop using Lilypond for a while. > > Has anyone figured all the backend stuff?? and could pass on some hints.. > or could there be more detailed examples in the manual... I've cannibalised > a lot of scores from Mutopia but can only use the collective wisdom for > current lilypond version.... > > For instance currently I want a brace around the 3 staves in my current > score... I've used the StaffGroup in the score section which gave me the > brace no problems ... but now I'm trying to have each staff with its own > bar line (ie. not one single barline running from the top of the score to > the bottom) at the same time keeping the brace. Can anyone help... and try > if possible to talk me around the logic how to get to the workaround??
I think this is the difference between ChoirStaff and StaffGroup. This information is available through lilypond internals => Translation => Contexts => ChoirStaff Unfortuntately, there is no good overview that tells you that this is where to look. > I think that the output to lilypond is great but unfortunately the > 'language programming' the user has to can be very confusing at times. > Helping to clear this up would get a lot more people on board with using > the program. > > If people wanted to send me there \overrides tweaks etc ... with an > explanation I wouldn't mind creating a list or document with them. This > would provide an easy reference and allow people to be able to piece > together their own changes to suit needs as they occur. The problem is that there are so many possible \override tweaks, so this list would grow too large. lilypond-internals is an exhaustive listing of all possible tweaks, but IMHO it lacks an easy enough overview to make it useful for non-gurus. -- Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
