Re: DOC: Essay, 1.4 Building software

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> "Pierre Perol-Schneider" <address@hidden> wrote in
> message
> news:address@hidden
>>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>> } } )

It shows exactly what is on the picture.  Have you tried it?

> 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?

I don't think so.  From what I gather, the original syntax would have
used <c4 d4 e4> for simultaneous music (which gets assembled into a
chord anyway), then added the chord syntax <<c d e>>4, then finally
interchanged <<...>> and <...> in their meaning.

However, <<c4 d4 e>> still remains a valid way to enter music that will
print as a chord (even though it will internally be represented as a
SimultanousMusic expression rather than an EventChord, this does not
affect typesetting).

So the essay is correct here.  It may still look awkward given the
current alternatives.

-- 
David Kastrup