Re: Documentation enhancements

[Graham Percival]

On 27-Sep-04, at 10:26 AM, Ruud van Silfhout wrote:

> 1. In te section 'Orchestral music', subsection 'System start 
> delimiters',
> the second example.It states there that the group is a StaffGroup, but 
> the
> example code shows a GrandStaff.

Fixed.

> 2. To add lyrics to music two methods are supplied; the 'addlyrics' and
> 'lyricsto'. I could find the difference between those two methods; so 
> it is
> not clear to me when to use the one and when the other.

Me neither.  :)    I'm still hoping that somebody who uses lyrics can 
help
me with that section, since I don't use them.  So far I'm working on the
bits that I _do_ understand; once I'm done those I'll take another look
at lyrics.

> 3. Questions I have seen more than once on the lilypond user group
> concerning the multimeasure rests.  Two styles of MM-rests are 
> supported.
> Normally this switches after 10 rests. How can this be switched at some
> other some 'user'-definable number of rests.

I'll look up the answer to this and add it to the manual.

> 4. I once mailed a template for a SATB-choir-staff with piano 
> accompaniment.
> Is that something to add to the templates part of the manual?

Sure!  I'll make a separate section for vocal stuff (and probably 
another
section for ancient notation templates), and we can have the SATB and
SATB+piano stuff in there.  Actually, once you send me the SATB+piano
template, I might make an "SATB+automatic piano reduction score"
version (which just sticks the voices on a piano staff).  That would be 
a
nice demonstration of the power of LilyPond compared to GUI programs --
once you've defined your music sections, it's easy to quote them again
and do other stuff with them.

> 5. The picture in the 'Creating titles' sub-section runs over the text 
> below
> it (or at least in the PDF version of the document I have printed)

Definitely a bug.  They might already know about it, but I'll check.

> Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the comments!  Please send more.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham