Re: beginners question Lilypond

[Francisco Vila]

2011/11/20 Kim van Aurich-Hoogenraad <address@hidden>:
> What do I do wrong in the below example???
> I want:
> - a landscape printed music sheet (with very big sized staffs "so, when I
> print it on my graphic braille printer, I can check it myself, before I
> print it in normal size");
>
> - Each staff only has a few notes and in front of each staff I want a
> number.

  \set Staff.instrumentName="1"

will print "1" in front of the first staff.

  \set Staff.shortInstrumentName ="2"

will print "2" in front of the second staff and further ones.

> PHs.: And what is a good/normal landscape size for normal sighted people to
> use?

Size 20 is normal size.

> \version "2.14.2

You do not close the double quoted section here. (this is bad)

> \layout { }
>
>    #(set-default-paper-size "a4" 'landscape)
>   #(set-global-staff-size 26)
>
> \header {
>
>   title = "Example: Twinkle twinkle little star"
>
> "

Here you close with double quoting mark, use closing curly brace
instead for the header block.

> melody = \relative c' {

If you plan using relative mode, remember to raise the second note an
octave, for ascending intervals greater than a fifth.

>   \clef treble
>   \key c \major
>   \time 4/4
> 1. = \new Staff } g4 g4 d4 d4 \ e4 e4 d2 \

Avoid the backslash at all, it means nothing.

Take this two lines an an example for your first line:

  \set Staff.instrumentName="1"
  g4 g4 d'4 d4  e4 e4 d2 \break

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