Re: staff-space doesn't seem to work as documented

[Phil Holmes]

Thanks.  Must sit down and read it soon, rather than dipping in to try to 
find what I need.  Won't make that mistake again, anyway!

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Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>; "Graham Percival" 
<address@hidden>
Cc: "LilyPond User Group" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: staff-space doesn't seem to work as documented


> Phil Holmes wrote Saturday, March 27, 2010 10:37 AM
>
>
> > The user error was actually in the quoting in my email: I'd tried both 
> > #'1.5 and #1.5 and neither had worked.  Thanks to those who pointed out 
> > the requirement for white space between the font size specification and 
> > the curly brace: #'1.5 } and #1.5 } both work. #1.5} doesn't work, and 
> > I'd not picked this up from the documentation since I tend to put 
> > commands of this sort on a single line, which the documentation doesn't.
>
> There's a big warning about this right at the beginning of the Learning 
> Manual.  Section 1.1.1 "Entering input" says "... braces should also be 
> surrounded by a space unless they are at the beginning or end of a line to 
> avoid ambiguities."
>
> Trevor