Re: Tricks and overrides for vocal music

[Arvid Grøtting]

2007/3/3, Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> Arvid Grøtting wrote:
> > That's fine, but if I want to do that with each setting, I also need
> > to write a small example around it.  Between a day job, a 13 months
> > old son, a wife, a choir and scores of scores to typeset, I don't
> > really have the time.  So if someone wants this in the form of small
> > snippets, please go ahead and write the small snippets :-)
>
> You could try making a single example with everything in it.  Or, as you
> suggest, somebody else could get involved.

I certainly could.

> > The same more or less applies here.  I can transform what I wrote into
> > a section, but it won't have many pretty pictures in it...
>
> A section without pretty pictures is better than no section at all.
> Although I kind-of agree with your suggestion that this is more of a LSR
> or template thing than a manual thing...

Unless we want "common tricks for this kind of music" in the sections
of chapter 7.

> > What I *can* do is write a section (for chapter 7.3) and include either
> >
> > - a template with these settings put in, or
>
> I think a template would be just as good -- actually, possibly even
> better.  Also...
>
> > - a full, working example (say, a two-page male choir piece by Grieg)
>
> ... it's easier to make a template.  Just take an existing piece and
> remove all the notes and lyrics!  :)

I transcribe a lot of choral music.  I *have* a template :-)  It needs
a bit of cleaning up before submission, though.

> > I think that's probably a good idea, although it may be more relevant
> > for either the LSR or (gasp!) the mailing list...
>
> If you use the mailist, then the 50 people (or 100, or whatever the
> number is) who read this mailist see it.   Virtually nobody searches the
> mailist, so anybody who subscribes to the mailist later (or is merely a
> casual lilypond user who isn't subscribed to -user) isn't going to see it.
>
> My rule of thumb is that info on the mailist is lost; all useful info
> should be in the documentation (where "docs" include both the manual and
> LSR).

Heh.  When I was young, people were supposed to search the mailing
list archives.  In knee-deep snow.  Uphill, both ways.  :-)

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Arvid