On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Daniel Hulme
<address@hidden> wrote:
Last night I was copying out a part I have to play which is squashed
onto a page too small to be clear. This part needed two functions I've
previously put off writing because I thought they would be really hard.
I tried them last night, sitting down with the NR, and I managed to
churn out two of them.
This experience has given me a lot more confidence with Lilypond: it
feels like I've "gone up a level," to borrow the language of RPGs. So
all I was writing for was to say thank you to all the Lilypond people -
programmers, documentation authors, mailing-list-question-answerers, bug
list triagers, and even constructive-whingers. I can appreciate much
more now how awesome this piece of software. I didn't previously
understand how true it was when people said you can make Lilypond do
anything - but it's even bigger than that: you can make any Lilypond
construct look like anything you like.
Now to anticipate questions people are likely to ask in reply. I don't
think there was any one part of the documentation that made me feel more
confident about it: it was more a coming-together of the things I'd
already learned. 'NR 6.3 Building complicated functions' was something I
referred to a lot, and the command index. One slightly hard thing was
that to find the page on options I can give to spanners I had to follow
the chain 1.8 Text -> 1.8.1 Writing text -> Text spanners -> 5.4.7 Line
styles -> 5.4.5 Spanners. The 'Text spanners' section just links to
TextSpanner in the IR, which was much less useful to me; it would be
great if it linked to 5.4.5 directly, and I will write a patch to that
effect unless someone beats me to it.
The other answer is: yes, I will send in my useful functions. One is for
adding flams to drum notes, and the other is for using a spanner to give
a "Fill" indication. I also have a trivial function for printing the Git
commit hash of the .ly file (I keep all my parts under version control)
that I've been meaning to contribute for a while. I'll send you all of
them some time when I'm not on my way out to work.
--
There is no such thing as a small specification change.
http://surreal.istic.org/ There is no need to shout.
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