Re: Tricks and overrides for vocal music

[Trevor Bača]

On 3/2/07, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
> Trevor Bača wrote:
> > On 3/2/07, Arvid Grøtting <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >> That's it for tricks currently in use, I think.  This is with 2.11.20,
> >> by the
> >> way; earlier versions may need other tricks...
> >
> > Can these please go into the manual under vocal music?
>
> Short answer: the fastest way of getting these into the manual is for
> somebody to add them to LSR.  When 2.11.21 comes out, they'll be in the
> list:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/lsr/vocal/collated-files
>
>
> Long answer:  (not directed at you, Trevor; you know this already)
> Sure!  Just as soon as somebody takes a look at
> http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding
> and sends me some instructions.
>
> Remember that I _don't do_ vocal music.  If you wanted me to scrawl out
> a nursery rhyme with lilypond -- with no concern for formatting -- I
> would need to look up the *tutorial* to figure out how to do it.  I've
> certainly never written a piece with lyrics, much less done any tweaking
> of vocal stuff.  So when it comes to anything in chapter 7.3, I need
> exact instructions.
>
> If you think that we should have a new subsection inside 7.3, at the end
> of that section, that simply includes the text of Arvid's email, I can
> do that... but please tell me to do it exactly like that.  You certainly
> can't count on me to use my own judgement to add any tricks that Arvid
> forgot, or to explain anything that Arvid skipped over.
>
>
> I'm fine with anything that isn't in chapter 7.  I'm an expert at string
> music.  And one of these weeks, when I start doing my Friday night
> documentation work and I don't have twenty emails to process, I'll learn
> how to do vocal stuff.

Arvid,

Could you wrap an introduction and conclusion around your common vocal
settings, pick a place for the new section to go in the manual, and
then send to Graham? Like Graham, I don't do vocal music, but your
common settings form a cool pattern.

More generally to everybody, seems like it would be nice if we could
encourage expert users in different domains to contribute something
like a set of "common settings I use when engraving blah type of
music", and send these to Graham for inclusion in the relevant section
or sections of the manual.


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Trevor Bača
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