Re: What is this warning? “no viable initial configuration found: may not find good beam slope”

[Harold Hausman]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 3:12 AM, Andrew Bernard
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Harold,
>
> Welcome to the Pond.
>

Andrew, thank you, and thank you for this informative reply. I learned a lot.

> Lilypond does a pretty good job (actually, not just pretty good, but amazing) 
> left to it's own devices, but music scoring is so rich that there are 
> situations where you may need to help it out a bit. The virtue of lilypond is 
> that there are tweaks and adjustments available from very simple to really 
> advanced using Scheme, the lilypond extension language.
>

I am actually a LISP programmer by trade, so this sounds like good
news to me. Where can I find documentation for things like
`Beam.positions`?

> It's a good idea to always use bar checks at the end of a measure. Saves many 
> headaches.
>

Good to know. I will make a habit of this, then.

> As always I really recommend using the new development versions, they are 
> very stable and it is only the conventional open source tradition of self 
> deprecation that labels them as 'unstable' (but even this view is 
> controversial on the list). There's so many more features and I hammer 
> 2.19.81 professionally all day and have not been able to crash it.
>

I did not realize that the latest stable version is from 2014 (!).

I have upgraded. The latest version I could find was 2.19.80
(http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/linux-64/), where
did you get 2.19.81 from?

> As a final point, all the beam slopes here I find personally quite ugly and 
> ragged. There are techniques to address this, but for another email.
>

When this becomes my biggest problem, I'll be sure to ask!

Kind thanks again for your time and insight,
-Harold