Re: Documentation Tweak: Octave Checks

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 14/06/2021 à 08:53, 6d8fd379d7b549a5@posteo.net a écrit :
> Hi,
> I got confused by the Octave Checks documentation:
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation-big-page#octave-checks 
>
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/blob/d408cdc68629ef6df72de0d0ace9c460016565f8/Documentation/en/notation/pitches.itely#L706 
>
>
> I thought the ='4 was some special notation to specify the 4th octave 
> (rather than the octave and then also the duration).
>
> I guess, I could've realized that the duration needs to be specified 
> somewhere,
> but to save other users from also being potentially confused by this, 
> I would suggest changing it from:
> ----
> c''2 d='4 d
> ----
>
> to just:
> ----
> c''2 d='
> ----
>
> That way it would also be more easily comparable to the \octaveCheck 
> example right below it.
>
>
> Cheers! :)

Thanks for the suggestion. Here you go:

https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/797

Best regards,
Jean