Re: transposing octaves for a piano part

[James Harkins]

At Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:47:43 -0400,
address@hidden wrote:
> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:45:15 +0100
> From: Steve Downes <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: transposing octaves for a piano part
> My comment on the manuals was not intended as a critism. I fully
> understand why it is as it is and the breadth of the subject matter
> involved. It was just a comment on the difficulty I was having as
> someone new to the software in linking the various methods &
> possibilities together to make aworking script. I think the software
> is amazing & the manual has much to commend it. 
> 
> Also to have a manual at all, never mind of this breadth & quality is
> unusual these days.

Usually I avoid "+1" comments, but here, I really have to echo what Steve said. 
Especially in the FLOSS world, documentation is an afterthought at best, but 
Lilypond's documentation beats that of many commercial packages. (I could cite 
a remarkable blooper from Max/MSP's buffer~ help, where the description of the 
"read" message leads you to expect a different argument order from the real 
one.)

Nice work, all!

James


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