RE: MultiMeasureRest - trying to be clever ...

[Anthony Youngman]

Thanks Graham.

The section I needed was 9.2.6 (I think 9.2.3 simply describes what I
said I'd tried to do...)

And no disrespect, but I think Thibault is spot on with his first
sentence. The lilypond documentation is the size of a small novel!
Finding what you're looking for isn't easy.

And I know it's small comfort to you on the lily list, but I'm on a list
where questions are often answered with "it's in the manual". Thing is,
that manual is maybe 20 volumes, MOST of which are individually bigger
than the lily manual. The problem is that if you keep the manual small
you have to leave things out, if you put everything in people can't see
the wood for the trees. What do you do?

Cheers,
Wol

-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Percival [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 04 July 2006 16:37
To: Anthony Youngman
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: MultiMeasureRest - trying to be clever ...

Anthony Youngman wrote:
> Is there any way I can change its value within the Score or Staff
> context, and have it take effect at Voice level? I did try
> 
> \set MultiMeasureRest.expand-limit = 1

Look at \set in the index!  This will direct you to 9.2.3.  The VERY 
FIRST EXAMPLE of \set involves changing a property at the Score level!

Of course, for expand-limit you probably want \override instead.

> On a more general level, the use of \override seems quite common. It
> would be nice to be able to change the defaults - there are various
> places where lilypond and I disagree as to what is "normal". I don't
> remember seeing anything about it in the manual,

4.6 Style sheets ?!
9.2.6 Changing context default settings ?!?!

Anthony, please read the manual.  I've spent literally over *100 HOURS* 
writing and updating manual since April.  When people complain about the

lack of info in the docs, when that info is clearly *IN* the docs -- in 
some cases, when that info has been in the docs for years -- I really 
wonder why I bother.

I mean, if I stopped working on lilypond and worked at McDonalds serving

fries, I would have made over $800 in that time.  That would cover two 
months of rent.

- Graham, LilyPond Documentation Editor.  For now.


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