some questions

[James Bailey]

Hello everyone

I'm actually doing rather well with lilypond, with a few minor exceptions. One is that my staff names don't show up and I get the odd warning from lilypond:

warning: can't find property type-check for `instrument' (translation-type?).  perhaps a typing error?

warning: doing assignment anyway

My lilypond file consists of:

{

\set Staff.instrument = "Bass"

\set Staff.instr = "B"

c d e f

}

\version "2.10.0"

I'm using macintosh version 2.10.0. Any thoughts?" And I thought that I could make staff instruments anything I wanted to.

Also, I'm trying to raise a metronome mark above a dynamic once.

{

  \context

  {

   \Score

   \override MetronomeMark #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 3)

  }

}

works, but it raises the metronome mark every time and adding \once doesn't work. I'm sure I'm just not understanding the manual well.

Thanks tons

james