Re: NR 2.1 suggestions

[Trevor Daniels]

James

Many thanks for your comments.  At first glance they all seem 
pertinent.  I'll have a look at fixing them up tomorrow.

I'm actually dealing with TODOs dotted around the file in no 
particular order, so there is no high-water mark for the changes 
I've made.  You could read and comment down to 2.1.7.

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Bailey" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>; "Trevor Daniels" 
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Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 5:55 PM
Subject: NR 2.1 suggestions


These are just some things that I noticed.

2.1.1 Entering Lyrics.

Lyrics are entered in a special input mode, which can be introduced 
by the keyword \lyricmode, or by using \addlyrics or \lyricsto. In 
this mode…
Which mode? This has bugged me for a while, and since changes are 
being made, can I request one here? As far as I understand, it's a 
statement referring to the generic mode used for entering lyrics, 
but because a keyword and two other things which haven't yet been 
defined have been mentioned in the same sentence as this mode for 
entering lyrics, it would be very helpful for a clearer sentence, 
i.e.,
Lyrics are entered in a special input mode, which can be introduced 
by the keyword \lyricmode, or by using \addlyrics or \lyricsto. In 
this special input mode…

Punctuation, lyrics with accented characters, characters from 
non-English languages, or special characters (such as the heart 
symbol or slanted quotes), may simply be inserted directly into the 
input file, providing it is saved with UTF-8 encoding.

Can I request/suggest an example that more clearly shows this? 
Maybe »Schad‘ um das so schö -- ne grü -- ne Band« (Slightly adapted 
from Die Schöne Müllerin to fit the notes already in the example.)

The first stanza is not aligned with the notes because the durations 
were not specified, and the default value of 2 is used for each 
word.
Doesn't this use the value of 2 because that was the last explicit 
value used? If the preceeding note has a value of 4, then it uses 
the value 4.
\version "2.13.36"
<<
 \new Voice = "one" \relative c'' {
   \time 2/4
   c4 b8. a16 g4. f8 e4 d r4 c
 }

% uses previous explicit duration 4;
 \new Lyrics \lyricmode {
   Joy to the earth!
 }

% explicit durations, set to a different rhythm
 \new Lyrics \lyricmode {
   Life4 is love,2. live4 life.2
 }
> >

Why is "Keeping Contexts Alive" a "see also" for "Manual syllable 
durations"? Nothing regarding why this is necessary is mentioned 
there. If anything, it should be in the section on "Automatic 
syllable durations"

Thanks for reading, and I really like a lot of the changes. For 
context, up to which section is the rewrite finished?