Happy New Year.
Wow. There's been a lot of activity
on the mailing list the last few days.
1. I want to help in some small way
if I can, but I 'm not sure what's best for me to do. I looked at Graham's
list of jobs (http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/lilyjobs.html) and I nothing
stands out as something I'm particularly suited for. I'm a horn player,
and so is Han-Wen, so it seems like the horn-specific stuff in Lilypond
is pretty well taken care of. :-)
English is my primary language,
I'm not a programmer, and I'd say I'm an "advanced beginner"
when it comes to proficiency with LP - I've been using it for about a year,
but not heavily, usually just to arrange my own parts from other material.
I read the mailiing list regularly, and learn a lot from it, usually just
storing up the knowledge that LP is capable of X and that if I ever need
to do X, I can search for it later, rather than actually using X. I'm always
using the latest development version.
Can anyone just "assign me"
a one-hour or less job, based on the above abilities? Then when I finish,
either assign another or maybe it will be obvious to me what to do next.
If I don't get a response, I'll start
with Checking the Learning Manual.
2. The advanced layout and titling stylesheet
example in the LSR (http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=368) makes no sense
to me at all.
It says, "Below is just a temporary
dummy example to ensure LSR compatibility. Remember to remove it when using
the actual code."
Where do I get "the actual code"?
(The description makes it sound like
it will do something like what Nicolas' framwork in his Couperin book will
do, but I can't figure out how to use Nicolas' code. It seems I need Linux,
but I'm running WinXP. I surmise that the "makefile" is key to
his framework, and to use it I need Linux, right?)
3. Suggestions for change to LM:
Chapter 2.1.1:
Under "Windows", replace "To
get an empty file to start from, run the editor as described above and
use “New” in the “File” menu."
with
"To get an empty file to start
from, run the editor as described above and use “New” in the “File”
menu, or right-click on the desktop and select New...Text Document, and
change the extension to .ly."
Chapter 2.1.3
"a comment is a remark for the
human reader of the music input; it is ignored while parsing, so it has
no effect on the printed output. There are two types of comments. The percent
symbol % introduces a line comment; anything after % on that line is ignored.
A block comment marks a whole section of music input as a comment. Anything
that is enclosed in %{ and %} is ignored. (Comments do not nest.) "
What does " Comments do not nest"
mean? Does it mean I can't put a comment within a comment? I tried it and
it seemed to be no problem.