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Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part
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David Kastrup |
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Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part |
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Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:58:01 +0100 |
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David Wright <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 22:00:01 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote:
>> David Wright <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > On Sat 09 Dec 2017 at 21:58:58 (-0500), Chris Jones wrote:
>> >> On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 08:29:54PM EST, Andrew Bernard wrote:
>> >> > Hi Chris,
>> >>
>> >> > Just look up the syntax for 'cross staff stems' in the NR. It's pretty
>> >> > simple.
>> >>
>> >> > I don't know much about 2.18.2, but I imagine that feature is there.
>> >> > By the way, have you considered upgrading to 2.19.80? It's very stable
>> >> > and the 19 series have so many good features it seems a pity to
>> >> > languish in the past!
>> >>
>> >> I'll take another look at the "cross staff stems" documentation.
>> >>
>> >> As to upgrading lilypond I tend to stick with the version that is
>> >> provided by my distribution (debian stable) unless I really need one
>> >> particular new feature.
>> >
>> > Strictly speaking, Debian stable, currently stretch, doesn't
>> > contain lilypond because it depends on guile-1.8-libs which
>> > stretch doesn't support.
>>
>> They just include the guile-1.8-libs internally to LilyPond and replace
>> the LilyPond executable with a shell wrapper pointing LDPATH to them.
>
> I think you're referring to stretch-backports. If one is happy to
> run backports, then I'd be surprised by any reluctance to run the
> lilypond.org unstable version.
>
> BTW do you have an opinion on the line being taken in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-12/msg00231.html
> I think a lot of people have difficulty with the term "unstable"
> as used with free software, where it means "things will change"
> rather than "things will fall over".
2.19.80 is a stable prerelease. That is, things are expected to change
but not substantially so (unless they are broken without easy fix).
--
David Kastrup
- cross-staff stems in a piano part, Chris Jones, 2017/12/09
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part, Chris Jones, 2017/12/09
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part, Andrew Bernard, 2017/12/09
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part, Chris Jones, 2017/12/09
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part, Andrew Bernard, 2017/12/10
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part, David Wright, 2017/12/10
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part, David Kastrup, 2017/12/10
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part, David Wright, 2017/12/10
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part, David Wright, 2017/12/10
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part, J Martin Rushton, 2017/12/10
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part, Ben, 2017/12/10
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part, Andrew Bernard, 2017/12/10
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part, Chris Jones, 2017/12/11
- Re: cross-staff stems in a piano part, Simon Albrecht, 2017/12/11