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From: | Graham Percival |
Subject: | Re: changing the midi instrument; broken |
Date: | Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:26:51 -0700 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Macintosh/20060719) |
Ted Walther wrote:
The lilypond manual is so good, and appears so complete, that I forgot I was still in Unix land.
Burn! That was harsh. I'm going to save this for .sig material. :) On a serious note...
In Windows, there is an immense amount of repetition, which saves people from hunting through the documentation. Each help topic assumes the user knows nothing, and tells them what they need to complete the task at hand. I need to bite the bullet and read the whole manual straight through, which I will try to do today.
I agree with this analysis (but I'm still committed to doing it the unix way). If you're reading the manual through, please look at the 2.9 manual. I've greatly expanded the "general knowledge" chapters in the beginning; if we need to clarify this issue, it would probably be in those chapters.
The documentation of lyrics has got me befuddled on the notion of contexts, as I haven't seen anywhere it clearly says what I can do in lyricsmode that I can't do in lyricsto, although the documentation does state that there is a difference. Perhaps the complete read-through of the manual will clear it up.
If you figure it out, let me know. I don't use vocal music, so I've barely touched that section. I'm happy for corrections, though.
Cheers, - Graham
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