Re: Accidental_engraver & Naturals

[Simon Mackenzie]

Hi David,

In response to your comments. As I said in a recent post when I have time I'll sit down and write a considered response.

I will aim to respond with an example to aid both my own learning of lilypond and maybe even the learning of others.

At this point in time this is the best I can offer.

Cheers

Reverend Simon Mackenzie <address@hidden>

Lutheran Church of Australia [[ http://www.lca.org.au/ ]]

On 27/08/2009, at 09:14, David Rogers wrote:

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:03, Simon Mackenzie<address@hidden> wrote:

I haven't been able to figure out how to replicate the three naturals on

this music sheet using Lilypond script?

Any ideas?

To re-state Graham's point in a different way, the particular naturals
you're looking for are ordinary and expected, not exceptional in any
way whatever, and all you do is give the correct key at the beginning
of your score, and the correct names of the notes when they are
supposed to appear. If you merely follow the Lilypond learning manual
instructions, those notes will come out right automatically. (But you
*do* have to follow the learning manual, and if you instead elected to
"fly by the seat of your pants", you would spend months or years
getting nowhere - if you didn't give up first.)

My comments on lilypond-user are indicative of a person who doesn't give up easily. ;-)

Given the limited time I've had to grasp music concepts and lilypond itself I'm surprised how well a "seat-of-the-pants-approach" has worked for me in this instance. I know my colleagues are certainly envious with the final results.

Lilypond use is a very particular set of knowledge that you can't pick
up naturally as you go along.

Actually I think it is possible, within certain limitations. As mentioned before, when I first ventured into lilypond I was very musically challenged and yet achieved much in a very short space of time.

Reading the manual (perhaps supplemented
with reading old posts from this list, to see if a certain question
has been answered before) is the only way.

Hmmmm???

I have quite a dislike for
reading manuals - but a much greater dislike for not having a clue
what I'm doing - and trust me, the manual is truly the only way.

Entirely agree.

David