Some questions from a novice

[nikolaik]

Hi.
I have LilyPond 1.6.5. installed (Cygwin) and have tried it for the first 
time.  Look nice, spent quite some time to get things working out.  I have 
some questions, things I'm not able to find out how to 'implement'.

Enclosed below is my program.

1: The first 3 notes (a triple) should be played as one quarter note.  I 
thought that I would have to specify "\times 2/3", however doing that results 
in the whole piece being shifted (result all wrong).

2: The first "\grace" note should be right in front of the first Es (in the 
second bar of the piece), however it is printed as the last note in the first 
bar.

3: How should I use the "\partial"?  I doesn't seem to be needed in this 
example.

4: Bar number 10 is the final should have the mark "Fine", however when 
entering a non-number in the "volta" statement, LilyPond generates an error.

5: Bar number 19 should be the first bar of section marked Trio.  It is in a 
new key (2 b's while the rest has 3 b's).  The change in "b" indication ends 
up at the end of bar 18 and again a "\grace" note which should be the first in 
the 19th bar is placed in a separate bar.  Actually the repeats should be 
something like ":|:".

6: Should LilyPond be able to handle national characters ?

Hope someone is able to help me out.  Really nice program, however somewhat 
hard to get started.  Please answer to me directly.

Sincerely Nikolai Kirsebom

PS: Is there any newsgroup for lilypond ?




\paper { textheight = 150 * \staffspace
           linewidth=-1. }
\include "paper16.ly"
\include "norsk.ly"
  
mus = \notes {
    \key es \major
    \times 1/3 { b8(\f c'8 )d'8-\segno } \repeat volta 2 { \grace { d'16 } 
es'4 g8. g16 g4 \times 1/3 { g8( f8 )g8 } \grace g16 as4 f8. f16 f4 r8 es'8\p 
\times 2/3 { [ d'8( es'8 )f'8 ] } [ d'8.( )b16 ] \times 2/3 { [ c'8( d'8 )es'8 
] } [ c'8. a16 ] \grace a16 b4 b8. b16 b4\f \times 2/3 { [ b8( c'8 )d'8 ] }
    \grace d'16 es'4 g8. g16 g4 \times 2/3 { g8( f8 )g8 } \grace g16 as4 f8. 
f16 f4 r8 as8\f  \times 2/3 { [ g8( as8 )b8 ] } [ g8.( )es16 ] \times 2/3 { [ 
f8( g8 )as8 ] } [ f8. es16 ] }
    \alternative { { es4 es'8. es'16 es'4 \times 2/3 { [ b8( c'8 )d'8 ] } } { 
es4 es'8.( )g'16 es'4 r4 } } \break
    \property Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta "0") end-repeat) es4_"FINE" 
es'8. es'16 es'4 r4 \property Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta #f))
    \repeat volta 2 { r1^"1" r2 r4 r8 es'8\f \times 2/3 { [ d'8( es'8 )f'8 ] } 
[ d'8.( )b16 ] \times 2/3 { [ c'8( d'8 )es'8 ] } [ c'8. a16 ] \grace a16 b4 
b8. b16 b4\f \times 2/3 { [ b8( c'8 )d'8 ] }
    \grace d'16 es'4 b8. h16 c'4 b4 b4 c'8. ces'16 b4 f'4 g'4 g'8. g'16 f'4 
f'8. f'16 es'4 es'8. es'16 es'4^^ r4 }
    \repeat volta 2 { \key b \major \grace { a16\p^"Trio" } b8.( a16 b8. )g16 
f4 f4 \grace a16 b8.( a16 b8. )g16 f4 f4 [ b8\f a8 ] [ b8 r16 g16 ] [ g'8 f'8 
] [ d'8 r16 d'16\p ] [ d'8( c'8 ] [ )es'8. c'16-. ] [ c'8( b8 ] [ )d'8. b16-. 
] [ b8( a8 ] [ )c'8. d'16-.\< ] [ c'8 b8 ] [ a8. \!c'16 ] }
    \alternative { { f'4\f f'8. f'16 f'2-> } { \grace a16 b4\f b8. b16_"D.S al 
Fine" b4 \times 2/3 { b8( c'8 )d'8-\segno} } } \bar "|."

    
}

\score {
  \notes \context Staff {
    \property Staff.TupletBracket \set #'direction = #1
    \property Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-5 . 4)
    \property Staff.instrument = #'(lines "Floyte" "(C)")
    \time 4/4
    \clef "G"
    \transpose c'' \mus
  }
  \header {
    title = "Brudemarsj"
    composer = "Arne Bjorndal"
    tagline = "..."
    subtitle =   "fra Seljord, Telemark"
    enteredby =  "NK"
    %piece =      "Allegretto scherzando"
    copyright =  "N.R."
    description = " "
  }
}