Re: transcribe notes

[Janek Warchoł]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jay Anderson writes:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:42 AM, MING TSANG <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I am transcribe a music score to lilypond and came across a note with
>>> vertical line on both side.  What is this called and how to code in lily to
>>> generate it?
>>
>> Most likely a breve: { c\breve }
>
> We now have two helpful comments with a specific answer, which helps
> this specific user.  It would be nice if we cloud point to the
> documentation and have future users find out by themselves.

I'm not sure.  This is a music notation question: "what's this?".
Lily documentation aims to answer different kind of questions: "how do
i engrave this?" and it assumes that the user knows what's what he
wants.

cheers,
Janek