Re: Shape of individual ties in chords

[David Kastrup]

Simon Bailey <address@hidden> writes:

> James,
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:56 AM, James <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> there's a few things which are only documented in the learning manual. :)
>>>
>>>
>> Actually I would change that last sentence to read:
>>
>> There's a few things which are not documented in the Learning Manual.
>>
>> And this is a deliberate decision. If not, it's still a good decision.
>
> i realised my mistake almost as soon as i pressed send. the link i
> sent is to the NR and there's an amazing amount of information not
> covered in the LM. Correctly so.
>
>> I don't see q as being needed in  the Learning Manual as a good thing; apart
>> from all the discussion how 'q' is a rather arbitrary 'command' - why 'q'?
>> what does 'q' stand for etc., not knowing q doesn't lose you any
>> functionality (i.e. there is nothing that q does that you cannot already do
>> with the 'correct' syntax) but there are limitations using q - which
>> are/should be documented in the Notation Reference.
>
> two i can think of:
> - it can't be quoted (at least i haven't found the correct event to
> quote yet)

I think that this will be fixed as a side effect of
<URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3810>.

> - it can't be altered with relative octave-switch commands

Well, it would be so weird behavior in a \relative section that I'm
actually glad about that.  Why would you even want to do that?

-- 
David Kastrup