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Re: Should sample code in NR build correctly?


From: Patrick McCarty
Subject: Re: Should sample code in NR build correctly?
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:52:30 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:25:02AM +1000, Nick Payne wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick McCarty [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Saturday, 23 May 2009 8:15 AM
> > To: Nick Payne
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: Should sample code in NR build correctly?
> > 
> > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:54:54AM +1000, Nick Payne wrote:
> > > For example, on p.98 of the PDF version of the 2.12.2 NR the
> > following
> > > example appears about half way down the page:
> > >
> > > \repeat volta 2 { c4 d e f }
> > > c2 d
> > > \repeat volta 2 { d4 e f g }
> > >
> > > If you try to build this using 2.12.2 on Windows you get
> > >
> > > error: syntax error, unexpected NOTENAME_PITCH
> > >
> > > c2 d
> > >
> > > and the output is two separate staves rather than the single staff
> > shown
> > > with the example. The whole thing has to be surrounded by \relative
> > c'' { }
> > > to get the desired output.
> > >
> > > The reason I ask is that I remember a post from someone a while ago
> > saying
> > > that the code as shown in the manuals had been used to produce the
> > output.
> > 
> > If you click on the image of the musical example, and copy/paste the
> > appropriate code, it should compile.
> > 
> That suggestion only works with the HTML documentation, not the PDF
> documentation. I almost always use the PDF documentation, as I can
> build an easily searchable index across all the different manuals.

Is the information found in Learning Manual 2.1.4 sufficient?

-Patrick




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