Re: DOC: Essay, 1.4 Building software

[Phil Holmes]

"Pierre Perol-Schneider" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> I clearly understand what you mean.
> Thing is that <<c4 d4 e4>> does not show what's on the picture (actually
> the link says: \relative c' { \new Voice { <<c4 d4 e>> } } )
> So I think it is not clear. Maybe this line should simply be deleted and
> the next example should be:
> \relative { f' <<c4 d4 e4>> } (or simply { << g'2 \\ { f'4 <<c'4 d'4 e'4>>
> } >> } face to what the 'Music representation' starts with).
>
> Cheers,
> Pierre
>
> 2016-07-22 15:40 GMT+02:00 James <address@hidden>:
>
> > Pierre,
> >
> >
> > On 22/07/16 14:18, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote:
> >
> > > Hi James,
> > >
> > > Sorry for the misunderstanding.
> > > Have you tried the snippet ? Have you seen the result ?
> >
> > No but the online help is built using LilyPond (these are not static
> > images). So the result should be the same as what is shown in that link.
> >
> >
> > > It should be written :
> > >
> > > { <c' d' e'>4 }
> > >
> > > and not:
> > >
> > > <<c4 d4 e4>>
> > >
> > > Examples that follow should also be corrected.
> >
> > Are you sure?
> >
> >
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/single-voice#simultaneous-expressions
> >
> > James

I think very early versions of LilyPond used << notes >> for chords, not < 
notes >.  The earliest manual I can find online (1.6) has the latter 
notation, but it may be that the essay uses the early notation?

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Phil Holmes