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Codas, Segnos, and bar number documentation
From: |
Anthony W. Youngman |
Subject: |
Codas, Segnos, and bar number documentation |
Date: |
Sun, 14 May 2006 23:48:54 +0100 |
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Turnpike/6.05-U (<UFb6TVx4PTSfG3mvIWX+2+a0eX>) |
As before, 2.6.4 lily (latest cygwin) and 2.8 docu ...
Looking at the manual, codas and segnos are under "Articulation",
symbols that modify notes. Fine, except to me this seems completely
wrong - they should be over bar-lines and modify the flow of music -
they're like the ":" that means "repeat this section"!
So I found the bit that said how to put a coda over the bar line, and it
had a load of scheme code about fermatas, and a note to "use \markup to
access the appropriate symbol". It would be nice if it told you where to
find the appropriate symbol, seeing as there doesn't seem to be a match
between the names... I know I'm using a mismatch of prog/docu, but I'll
have a look at the correct docu tomorrow, and the docu wasn't that
helpful, seeing as it neither told me what I needed to know, nor where
to look, despite the index telling me exactly what I was looking for and
pointing me there...
One last little point on the docu. In section 8.2.4 it tells you how to
manually typeset barnumbers with the help of a load of scheme code.
Isn't that now redundant? The previous section tells you how to use a
bar-number as a rehearsal mark, which looks like it's exactly the same
thing. I guess the scheme code is left over from versions of the docu
before bar-number rehearsal-marks were added.
Cheers,
Wol
--
Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk
HEX wondered how much he should tell the Wizards. He felt it would not be a
good idea to burden them with too much input. Hex always thought of his reports
as Lies-to-People.
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- Codas, Segnos, and bar number documentation,
Anthony W. Youngman <=