Re: Chapter 10, "output formats" => "global issues"

[Graham Percival]

On 22-Feb-06, at 11:03 AM, Cameron Horsburgh wrote:

> 10.1.4 There's a line "Easiest to enter such texts is by using a

Thanks, fixed.

> 10.2 Music expressions again
>
> Hmm, I think it would be better to include a link to 2.7 in 10.1.1 or
> 10.1.2. It's hard enough keeping one set of information up to date,let
> alone two. You link to 2.7 in section 4, and that makes sense there.

I'd rather not link from the reference manual to the tutorial (ie 10 to 
2).  Chapter 4 is a special case.  :)

> Of course, you also link to 'File Structure' once or twice in section 
> 4.
> I would have to have a good look at what's going on here, but I wonder
> if sections 4 and 10 could somehow be combined. They seem to complement
> each other quite nicely in some respects.

Yeah; I wasn't certain what to do about the overlap, so I left it blank 
for now.  I'll revisit this tonight or tomorrow.

> 10.4.2 The entry
> "heap-separation
>     Distance between the top-most music system and the page header."
> Isn't this supposed to read "head-separation?"

Good catch!  Thanks.

> 10.7.1 Creating Midi Files
>
> ***************************
> Bugs
>
> Unterminated (de)crescendos will not render properly in the midi file,
> resulting in silent passages of music. The workaround is to explicitly
> terminate the (de)crescendo.
>
> For example:
>
> {a\< b c d\f}
>
> will not work properly but
>
> {a\< b c d\!\f}
>
> will.

Great idea!  Done.

Thank again,
- Graham