Re: need to generate mass quantities of random notes for practice

[Valentin Villenave]

2007/6/1, plasmacarwash <address@hidden>:

Maybe you should post a fragment of your file (if not the whole code,
as it seems to be pretty short) here. Besides, if you're using jEdit,
installing (in "Plugin manager") LilyPondTool would help you; not only
does it give handful shortcuts and highlighting, but it also contain
the whole Documentation and makes it easily browseable.

> My (.PDF) measures spread the quarter notes over the width of the Sahara.
> They don't come out "tight" like the tutorial.

You may want to use
\layout { ragged-right = ##t}
on top of your file. (see 11.6.4 in the manual, and maybe 10.1.2 too)

> I made all my notes 4 to 5 octaves high -"dog" whistle-register.
Maybe you used too much c''''''' :-)
You'd better use the relative mode here; see 6.1.6 in the manual

Regards,
Valentin Villenave