Re: 2.5 percussion documentation examples are broken?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Graham Percival wrote:
> Devel: is  \drums{}  still supposed to work?

At least it's still in the source code!

   /Mats

> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/ 
> Entering-percussion.html
> %% all "notes" are middle C
>  \drums {
>        hihat hh bassdrum bd
> }
>
> Looking at the examples in Percussion-staves, it seems that drum  
> support only
> works when there's an explicit \context DrumStaff { \context DrumVoice{  
> }}.
> See this example:
>
> %% first bar fails; second bar (after the DrumVoices are defined) is  good.
> \new DrumStaff <<
>        \context DrumVoice = "1" { s1 *2 }
>        \context DrumVoice = "2" { s1 *2 }
>        \drummode {
>          bd4 sn4 bd4 sn4
>          <<
>            { \repeat unfold 16 hh16 }
>            \\
>            { bd4 sn4 bd4 sn4 }
>          >>
>        }
>  >>
>
>
> I can delete \drums{} from the docs and replace it with the explicit
> definitions, but I think we should keep \drums{}.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
>
>
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