Re: problems with learning lilypond

[Simon Mackenzie]

Yeah it's proving to be an interesting learning experience trying to  
wrap my head around Lilypond. I feel it is like a multi-headed beast  
with Scheme & Lilypond script intermingled together. It makes for an  
interesting mix to get ones head around. The manuals are helpful but  
there are hugh gaps for any new and inexperienced user such as myself.

As for the output and end result. Every single person to whom I have  
presented printouts have only ever made very positive comments, from  
wood-be musicians to music teachers and choir masters all are amazed  
when I tell them I did this with a free music sheet program under  
linux. I'm no musician but the first time I printed one of the sample  
outputs it was easy to see Lilypond really does stand out amongst the  
rest.

Just wish I could figure out the global variable reassignment  
challenge so I can clean up my code and make it more presentable and  
easier to maintain.

Simon

On 12/08/2009, at 10:51, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > One other thing, much of the time I have questions, but do not know
> > how to ask the question. That is extremely frustrating and I don't
> > know if there is anything you can do about it. Sometimes i just
> > don't know the correct terminology to use. Many things that are
> > assumed when you are playing the music are not assumed when you are
> > typesetting the music. I've tripped over that one many times.
>
> In most cases it is extremely helpful to provide a small image which
> shows the problem you have.  For example, you could use a paint
> program of your choice to mark what you want to change.
>
>
>    Werner
>
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