Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 08:42:43AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > This looks like a syntactic nightmare.  You are suggesting
> > 
> >   c4 c 4 -> c4 c4 c4
> > 
> > i.e. making white space syntactically significant.
> 
> Honestly, this would be OK with me.  How many users are aware that
> `c 4' is the same as `c4' (I wasn't, BTW)?  Is this ever documented?
> Do we have a single example which makes use of this syntactic
> possibility?

I wasn't aware of this possibility, but spaces *are* useful for
clarity:

  c4->-.( \tweak #'slur-style #'foo \(\cr \tweak #'extra-offset #(3 . 1) 
-\markup{ blah }

I'd hate to do this kind of thing without spaces.  I mean...
  c4->-.(\tweak #'slur-style #'foo \(\cr\tweak #'extra-offset #(3 . 1)-\markup{ 
blah }

I'm not certain if this would even compile.


I guess we could say "a whitespace followed by a pitch or duration
signals the beginning of a new note".

Cheers,
- Graham