Re: incipit in 2.12: some remarks

[Trevor Daniels]

Stefan, you wrote Sunday, December 28, 2008 12:14 PM
> - Something about incipits should be added to the documentation again. 
> Currently there is a chapter for it (see 2.8.5) that contains nothing 
> but "TBC".

Yes, unfortunately there is no one in the doc team that has the
knowledge and/or time to write this section at the moment.  
Would you be interested in preparing some text for this?
A few paragraphs of straight text and a couple of examples
sent to me would be fine.

> - The incipit function in the snippet sets the style for notes and time 
> signature to 'neomensural' but unfortunately not for the rests - which 
> are still printed in modern notation. I didn't find out how to set this 
> correctly in the snippet function.

I don't think the incipit function in the snippet titled 
"Incipit" actually sets the neomensural style itself - this
seems to be set in the music supplied to the function.  So 
using

\override Rest #'style = #'neomensural

in the music should work.  I'll see if I can fix this.

> - I would be VERY happy if the incipit function could be shipped with 
> standard lilypond. I wouldn't want to include this function into all of 
> my scores and it would be great to have it out of the box in future 
> versions!

There are still some issues with incipits, I believe, so this
snippet should be regarded as just a possible approach.  For 
the same reasons this will probably not be included as a 
standard function.

> Best regards,
>
> Stefan

Trevor