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Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]
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Francisco Vila |
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Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics] |
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Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:43:31 +0100 |
2012/11/12 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> The fundamental question for an user (and he thinks it is for all new
>> users, too) was to realize that lilypond is a programming
>> language. Every syntax is more or less complex, and it would be
>> useless to question it without a big amount of judgement elements.
>
> But LilyPond should rather be a music description language.
I think it is intended to mean more like "a language" as opposed to
everything else which is not "a language"
>> 2 Something especially difficult or hard to read or to write?
>>
>> Putting several voices together looks scary to use.
>
> In what respect "putting several voices together"?
Multi-voice staves, I think. Polyphony in the lilypond sense of the word.
>> It would be fine to specify properties as a series of dot-separated
>> list of symbols.
>
> I guess we are ahead on this one.
Yes, this is great.
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Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com