Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

[mclaren]

Thanks, it's useful to know that Lilypond doesn't have printable objects to
represent time values shorter than 1/128 note, but that Lilypond
nevertheless does insert them into scores and deal with them.

This offers an example of the inadequacy of the Lilypond documentation. This
kind of limitation in Lilypond's output really should be featured
prominently somewhere in the basic info about entering note-values in the
Lilypond Learning Guide. One sentence would do: "WARNING: Lilypond has no
glyphs to represent note- or rest-values shorters than 1/128 note, but if
they are entered they will alter the score and appear as beamed values."  Or
something like that. 

The Lilypond documentation is poorly organized and extremely incomplete. For
exmaple, I was only only able to find out about tie direction control by
glancing at an unrelated list of tweaks. Tie direction control \tieUp and
\tieDown should be featured prominently in the Lilypond Learning Manual in
the section on ties. 



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