Re: Shape of individual ties in chords

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 10:31 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 10:26 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> >> Simon Bailey <address@hidden> writes:
> >> 
> >> > hi,
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> >> Thanks for this - while playing around with it I noticed the mysterious
> >> >> synatx q that appears. I tried looking this up in the two indices
> >> >> without success. It causes a syntax error after a note but repeats a
> >> >> chord when placed after a chord. I wonder what exactly it is all about
> >> >> and why I can't find it documented...
> >> >
> >> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/single-voice#chord-repetition
> >> >
> >> > there's a few things which are only documented in the learning
> >> > manual. :)
> >> 
> >> Not this one, though.
> >
> > So is this a bug with the documentation (incomplete indexing)?
> 
> Well, we don't have c, cis, ces... indexed, either.  Admittedly, we do
> have r, s, and R in the index.

yes, I was thinking about that - there is the language include file that
would affect some of those, but to be practical, I don't recall ever
noticing q in the past ten years or so of watching and using LilyPond
(well, I virtually never have to write chords myself so perhaps it is
not surprising)

Richard