Re: Tricks and overrides for vocal music

[Graham Percival]

Trevor Bača wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Arvid Grøtting <address@hidden> wrote:

> > That's it for tricks currently in use, I think.  This is with 2.11.20, 
> > by the
> > way; earlier versions may need other tricks...
>
> Can these please go into the manual under vocal music?

Short answer: the fastest way of getting these into the manual is for 
somebody to add them to LSR.  When 2.11.21 comes out, they'll be in the 
list:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/input/lsr/vocal/collated-files


Long answer:  (not directed at you, Trevor; you know this already) 
Sure!  Just as soon as somebody takes a look at
http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding
and sends me some instructions.

Remember that I _don't do_ vocal music.  If you wanted me to scrawl out 
a nursery rhyme with lilypond -- with no concern for formatting -- I 
would need to look up the *tutorial* to figure out how to do it.  I've 
certainly never written a piece with lyrics, much less done any tweaking 
of vocal stuff.  So when it comes to anything in chapter 7.3, I need 
exact instructions.

If you think that we should have a new subsection inside 7.3, at the end 
of that section, that simply includes the text of Arvid's email, I can 
do that... but please tell me to do it exactly like that.  You certainly 
can't count on me to use my own judgement to add any tricks that Arvid 
forgot, or to explain anything that Arvid skipped over.


I'm fine with anything that isn't in chapter 7.  I'm an expert at string 
music.  And one of these weeks, when I start doing my Friday night 
documentation work and I don't have twenty emails to process, I'll learn 
how to do vocal stuff.

Cheers,
- Graham