Re: string number problem

[Jonathan Kulp]

Oy.  In all the time I spent working on that part of the docs, it never 
occurred to me to try the fingerings and string numbers with slurs.

So, I ran this code and while I got the same error message as you, it 
was not a fatal error and the file continued to run, producing perfect 
output (except that I haven't set the proper time signature, anyway--see 
attached image).  I'm running the development version 2.11.55 on Ubuntu 
8.04.  Maybe it would fix this problem for you to install the latest 
version?  Be forewarned that 2.11.55 has another issue, discussed in a 
different thread, where the dots for dotted notes are placed on lines 
instead of between them.  I trust this will be fixed in a forthcoming 
release as the developers are quite vigilant for such things :)

What's weird about this "avoid-slur" warning is that in this example, 
the slur is nowhere near anything that needs to be avoided. The slur is 
on one side, the fingering/string indications on the other.  And when I 
added something that would possibly interfere with the slur (an accent), 
it doesn't complain about that, but about something else.  Why would 
Lilypond complain about needing to avoid anything?

Jon

Tom Cloyd wrote:
> OK - here's a minimal version of my problem -
>
> [running ver. 2.10.33]
>
> input:
> ====
>        \relative c'{ <fis-1\4>8 [(g-2) a-4]  <b-1\3> [c-2 d-4]  <e-1\2> 
> [fis-3 g-4] | }
>
> console output:
> ==========
> GNU LilyPond 2.10.33
> Processing `test.ly'
> Parsing...
> warning: Not in toplevel scope
> Interpreting music...
> test.ly:31:36: warning: Ignoring grob for slur. avoid-slur not set?
>                \relative c'{ <fis-1
>                                    \4>8 [(g-2) a-4]  <b-1\3> [c-2 d-4]  
> <e-1\2> [fis-3 g-4] | }
> [1]
>
> The problem is the slurring. Remove the slurs and it runs. So...how to I 
> slur the f and g, etc., when using string number notations? THAT I 
> cannot get to work, and I cannot find any example showing someone else 
> getting it to work.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> Graham Percival wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:47:56 -0700
> > Tom Cloyd <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >  
> > > Thanks very much for your quick response. However, it puzzles me. I 
> > > plainly  said I'm using ver. ly ver. 2.10.33. I would never expect
> > > docs for 2.11 to apply better than docs for the version I use -
> > > unless 2.11 is correcting a documentation error. Is that the case?
> > >     
> >
> > We've spent about 1000 hours working on the docs since 2.10.33.
> > Perhaps as much as 50 of those hours were spent on new .11
> > features.  The rest was spent fixing and improving the docs.
> >
> >  
> > > I just tested <c\1> in simple score case. It worked exactly as I 
> > > desired. So....my ver. 2.10.x IS behaving as the ver. 2.11 docs says. 
> > >     
> >
> > According to the 2.11 docs, that shouldn't work.
> > "
> > Note: There must be a hyphen after the note and a space before the
> > closing >.
> > "
> > ... oh wait, that's for right-hand fingering.  Sorry, never mind.
> >
> >
> > In that case, I only recommend creating a minimal example that
> > demonstrates the problem, and go from there.  Somebody else might be
> > able to figure it out.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Graham
> >
> >
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