Re: one other thing - documentation

[Simon Bailey]

mw,

On 20 Apr 2009, at 14:34, address@hidden wrote:
> You could make these conventions explicit - I had to learn about  
> them by trial and error.
>
> cis'4 is a valid command; cis4' is not.

there is a perverse logic to this, which makes it not a convention but  
syntax. the ' and , are actually part of the pitch, the numbers only  
designate the duration and can be omitted. you are right, it is not  
explicitly stated anywhere, if graham's ok with it, i'll add a patch  
to the LM 2.1.2 to clarify this point. but once you've wrapped your  
mind around the concept of ' and , being an integral part of the pitch  
it becomes automatic.

> c (d e f        %comment
>
> g a)
>
> causes an error, but
>
> c(d e f
>
> g a)           %measure 64
>
> does not.  (the comment has to be outside of the paren.)

no it doesn't (as graham has already pointed out). at least not here  
on a mac using lilypond 2.12.1. and in the past 7 years of using  
lilypond i've never run into this problem either on linux, mac or  
windows.

regards,
sb
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