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Some problems in the docs, as encountered by a beginner
From: |
Neil Sands |
Subject: |
Some problems in the docs, as encountered by a beginner |
Date: |
Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:27:46 +0000 (UTC) |
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Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) |
Hello
I hope this is the right place to point out some errors in the LilyPond
Learning
Manual. I'm a beginner to LilyPond so I may have got the wrong end of the stick
about some things. If so, please tell me!
Here goes:
1. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/building-a-score-from-
scratch
On this page, in the variable called 'ManualTwoMusic', we see the text 'e8~
ees16', which seems to mean an E tied to an E flat. A warning about an
unterminated tie is given during the compilation process, and the score that
results (and the example score in the docs) both show an E natural followed by
an E flat at that point. So I think the tilde symbol ~ for the tie is just
wrong
here.
2. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/fixing-overlapping-
notation
In a few places on this page, we see this sort of thing:
'{ e''8 e'' e'' e'' e'' e'' e'' e'' f''2 g'' }'
when in the example score in the docs, we see a row of Es all in the same
octave. When you compile the code given above, it puts each note up two octaves
in relation to the last. The examples on this page are full of this kind of
thing.
3. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/style-sheets
In the code immediately under this text...
'Let’s copy the current ‘definitions.ily’ to ‘web-publish.ily’ and modify that.
Since this music is aimed at producing a pdf which will be displayed on the
screen, we’ll also increase the overall size of the output.'
... the first line of code has the comment '%%% definitions.ily', when
actually
it should be '%%% web-publish.ily' (as that's the name of the file people
following the text have been instructed to edit).
4. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning/other-sources-of-
information
In the GNU/Linux information, the path name
INSTALLDIR/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ is given. In fact, it should
begin INSTALLDIR/LilyPond/... (i.e. LilyPond in mixed case).
There was another one but I've forgotten it!
I hope this helps, and as I say if I'm just wrong about all this please fix me.
Thanks
Neil
- Some problems in the docs, as encountered by a beginner,
Neil Sands <=