Re: Describing instruments

[David Kastrup]

Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:

> Graham Percival wrote:

>> I don't think that lilypond should serve as a crutch to composer who
>> know so little about their craft that they write unplayable notes.
>> But if you want to persue this, feel free to write a music function
>> which checks the ranges (or anything else) and add it to LSR.
>>   
> LilyPond offers partial help, for the composer who has access to
> information on the range of the instruments but wants to quickly check
> if the parts he already has written are within that range, thanks to
> the support for ambitus,

In that case it would be sufficient to display ambitus messages on the
console output.  The existing ambitus support is intended more for
performers and conductors.

-- 
David Kastrup