Re: what's wrong?

[Ole Schmidt]

Thanks for your help!

Normally I use barline checks- I didn't use Lilypond for a while and was a bit 
hasty.

ole


Am 24.11.2009 um 23:32 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:

> Am Dienstag, 24. November 2009 22:59:26 schrieb Ole Schmidt:
>> Can someone please take a look at my code- it compiles whithout an
>> errorwarning but looks very strange. Maybe I overlooked something simple?
> 
> HINT: Sometimes it can be extremely helpful to add some barline 
> checks every now and then (actually, in all scores that I write with 
> lilypond, I insert a barcheck, i.e. a |, after each and evry measure, 
> and a bar number check, i.e. \barNumberCheck #10, every 5 or 10 
> measures. 
> 
> See:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Bars#Bar-and-bar-number-checks
> 
> The problem with your score is that you messed up one measure 
> somewhere down the line, so that the bar lines would happen 
> during notes, so lilypond can't find proper positions to break the 
> staves.
> 
> Simply try to insert | every few measures and lilypond will immediately 
> tell you where the notes don't sum up nicely to these bar lines...
> 
> Cheers,
> Reinhold
> 
> PS: I strongly discourage you to structure the lilypond input after the 
> original you are copying. In particular, while it might seem much easier 
> if you use one line in the lilypond file per music line on your original 
> score, 
> as soon as you get to the proofreading stage, you'll have trouble finding 
> the correct place in the lilypond file if you need to change some notes...
> My advice is to add measure numbers to your original and structure the 
> input file by bar numbers. In particular, I usually write exactly one measure 
> per line, but for your score it might be easier to write exactly five 
> measures 
> per line in the lilypond file. 
> Since lilypond prints bar numbers in the output, you'll always easily find 
> the 
> lilypond code that generated a particular note...
> 
> 
> PS 2: If you really don't find the problem(s) yourself:
> -) Zweite Seite, fünfte Zeile: There is a 8. where an 8 would be correct 
> (i.e. 
>    you have 1/16 too much in that measure)
> -) Dritte Seite, dritte Zeile: I suppose the first ties as should be as4~, 
> while 
>    in your example it takes the duration from the note before (i.e. a half 
> note).
> -) Dritte Seite, fünfte Zeile: You write "\times 3/4 ces4 ", which is a 
> triplet on 
>    the ces, not a 3/4 time signature (notice the difference between \times 
>    and \time...)
> 
> 
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> Reinhold Kainhofer, address@hidden, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
> * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
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