From: Kieren MacMillan kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca
Subject: Re: Understanding Lilypond
Hi Peter,
many of us have struggled for many months to get to grips with the
structure and philosophy of Lilypond.
1. Regarding the structure, what are you struggling with exactly?
2. Regarding
Hi,
The current examples present the minimum information necessary to demonstrate
the feature.
This follows lilypond's approach, which is to invent everything needed that
you didn't specify, like books, scores, staves, time signatues, clefs,
barlines, etc.
This *is* a potential
of
being lost in a sea of hieroglyphs.
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To: Peter Gentry
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Subject: Re: Understanding Lilypond
Hi Peter,
many of us have struggled for many
better documentation would be needed most IMO)
Urs
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From: Kieren MacMillan [mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 9:40 PM
To: Peter Gentry
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Subject: Re: Understanding Lilypond
Hi Peter,
many of us have
On Sat, 2015-01-17 at 13:37 +0100, Urs Liska wrote:
Concretely I see the problem in a sequence of related issues:
- Scheme itself *is* difficult to get into
actually, Scheme syntax is incredibly simple - Scheme expressions are
lists (a b c) with the first element being the procedure and the
Am 17.01.2015 um 14:13 schrieb Richard Shann:
On Sat, 2015-01-17 at 13:37 +0100, Urs Liska wrote:
Concretely I see the problem in a sequence of related issues:
- Scheme itself *is* difficult to get into
actually, Scheme syntax is incredibly simple - Scheme expressions are
lists (a b c) with
Am Samstag, 17. Januar 2015 14:13 CET, Richard Shann rich...@rshann.plus.com
schrieb:
actually, Scheme syntax is incredibly simple - Scheme expressions are
lists (a b c) with the first element being the procedure and the
subsequent ones the parameters. So if you come across (if a b) you
Hi Peter,
I'm not sure that my response is suitable for the list
It *definitely* is!
Please feel free to critisize scorn or otherwise flame.
I’m sorry your default expectation is to be critisized, scorned, or flamed —
that hasn’t been my primary experience on this list (as a newbie more
Urs Liska wrote
Of course, but when you are searching for solutions, approaches or even
tutorials on Scheme you'll get a bunch of different resources, some for
Racket, some for MIT Scheme, some for guile-1.8, some for guile-2.0 and so
on. While often there is something to the solution that you
Am 17.01.2015 um 17:22 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
Hi Peter,
I'm not sure that my response is suitable for the list
It *definitely* is!
Please feel free to critisize scorn or otherwise flame.
I’m sorry your default expectation is to be critisized, scorned, or flamed —
that hasn’t been my
Am 16.01.2015 um 13:35 schrieb David Sumbler:
As I start to gain experience in setting music in Lilypond I am trying
to understand more about how it works internally. As well as personal
satisfaction, this obviously has a practical aim: it will make it easier
for me to modify or correct things
2015 14:28:52 +0100
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To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Understanding Lilypond
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Am 16.01.2015 um 13:35 schrieb David Sumbler:
As I start to gain
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Am 16.01.2015 um 13:35 schrieb David Sumbler:
As I start to gain experience
Just let me repeat something I wrote a number of times here.
If you manage to understand something with the help of this
list that you think could be a not-so-uncommon issue for many
please consider sharing your experience with a (little or big)
tutorial, for which we have always free space
Hi Peter,
many of us have struggled for many months to get to grips with the structure
and philosophy of Lilypond.
1. Regarding the structure, what are you struggling with exactly?
2. Regarding the philosophy, what are you struggling with exactly?
Hope I can help!
Kieren.
Dear David,
as a small addition and a partly similar answer to Urs’, I think the point is:
LilyPond tries to suggest (or even enforce as a default) conventions of classic
music notation. This comprises for example that clefs are repeated for each line
but the time signature isn’t.
In your case,
Harald Christiansen haraldch...@gmail.com writes:
Hello,
Is there a manual for the lilypond language itself ?
I don't get it ... is it a programming language ... a macro expander ...
all of the above ?
It is a dynamically typed language. Not much programming in the
language itself, but a
Hello David,
Many thanks for your reply. :-)
I was giving the variable example as a kind of difficulty I have. I
appreciate the fish you are giving to me but I want to learn how to
fish :-)
For example you say
Because \layout { ... } is not a music expression but rather an output
definition.
Harald Christiansen wrote
For example you say
Because \layout { ... } is not a music expression but rather an output
definition. Different type.
and then later on:
There are no typed variables.
In my mind these two do not work together ... for me there is some
understanding missing.
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