Re: How to retrieve information?

[David Nalesnik]

Luca,

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Luca Danieli <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear List,

I am wondering if anyone can suggest a sort of "methodology" to retrieve those information which are (for me) no easy to find online or in the web guide.

For example, I am right now looking for "open", "half-open" and "very open" embouchure for flute.

I can find only the "open" symbol and probably now I will try to shrink and enlarge the symbol to realize what I want.

Would this snippet help?

http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=611

 

In general, have you got some suggestion, some methods you would like to share (for example some specific approach to orient yourself within the source code) to retrieve the information you search for and don't easily find on the web or to "create" solutions to the difficult task of writing unusual symbols and formatting styles?

A start would be to look through the Lilypond Snippet Repository, where the snippet I've linked is taken: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/  You'll find solutions to a lot of common and not-so-common requests there.  I learned a lot by skimming through everything, and studying the code that interested me.

Note that only a subset of these snippets has made it into the official documentation: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/snippets/index.html.

Hope that helps,

David