Re: transcribe notes

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <address@hidden>
To: "Janek Warchoł" <address@hidden>
Cc: "MING TSANG" <address@hidden>; "lilypond-usermailinglist" 
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: transcribe notes


> Janek Warchoł writes:
>
> > I'm not sure.  This is a music notation question: "what's this?".
> > Lily documentation aims to answer different kind of questions: "how do
> > i engrave this?" and it assumes that the user knows what's what he
> > wants.
>
> She wants a certain type of note.  Chances are that she can find out
> which one it is by herself much easier when we have images of all notes
> available.
>
> Jan

It's not too hard to find elsewhere, TBH:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_value

I'm not convinced we need to turn the Lilypond documentation into a general 
musical tutor, glossary notwithstanding.

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Phil Holmes