Re: Remarks about the documentation (section 8.3)

[Jean-Charles Malahieude]

Le 14.08.2007 11:27, Graham Percival disait :
> Sorry, I'm not certain I understand -- is this a suggestion about 
> rewriting the docs, or a question about how to use lilypond?

Both of them, if you don't mind.
I should say I often run the examples I don't really fully understand, 
in order to give a better translation.

> If it's about rewriting the docs, please be a bit more specific.  I've 
> never used quotes, so I need exact instructions.  Alternatively, you 
> could discuss it with Valentin (potentially in French) and he could 
> figure out what to do with the docs.  :)
I've sometimes seen quotes in choir scores, indicating the last measure
of an instrumental part during a long pause. It is useful for getting 
the right pitch when singing again.

So let me explain what I understand of Han-Wen's comment:
@item
 when the original part takes over again, this should be marked with
 the name of the original instrument.

@c really?  Are you sure about that last point?  I'll check after 3.0
@c -gp

@c Yes, this is good practice.  Otherwise, the start of the original
@c part can only be seen from the font size.  This is not good enough
@c for sight-reading.  It is possilbe to use other
@c markers (e.g. a big close-bracket over the staff) to indicate the cue
@c   notes are
@c finished.
@c -hwn

The Voice you want to quote gets sticked with \addQuote @var{name} 
@var{music}.

When you want to use this original part in another staff, the citation 
will occur either in normal size (\quoteDuring) or smaller size 
(\cueDuring).  If you can approximate the difference throughout the 
font-size of the quotation,  It might be useful to print the playing 
instrument and an extender to its end.

I have not been able to pick up the _name_ you use both when defining 
the quotable voice and when quoting it later. The only way I founded was 
to add a markup to the silent (rest or skip) in order to print the 
playing instrument.

Hoping not to be too boring,
Jean-Charles