to say... may be adding a poem about music, if I can get it done and get it right... and a brief essay-of-sorts about musical form, if I can get it from ideas in my mind to something written. Because sometimes a person (that'd be me, so...!) feels that he can do something well, and that it plays to his strengths, and hey... he needs the practice.
(Some of the files that now sit in my image gallery- the Mozart, for example- really have given me practice using LilyPond, the program that created them; I now know how to do this-and-that, a few things I did not know just a month or so ago- and I have been using the program for over a year. Not that a year is so long in context, but... still! Of course, given my habit of not really reading the documentation. And... ... er... just how long the documentation is- it was already a complex program, meant to cover a lot of cases, when "version 2.0.1" came out, and is even moreso now, I think. Complex program, big many-case online manual. So what I was looking for was in the manual, but... ... oy. Have to look in the index in the right place, or... read the whole thing, which by now, I should have done...
(I can't use more recent versions than 2.0.1 - a quick check shows that's the version I have, lilypond -v -- without upgrading my operating sy... ok, we heard you already!!! ... critics, everyone's a critic...
Complex != complicated... complexity has, sometimes, a connotation of justification, of proportionality to the situation, that complication does not always.)
So now I know how to control beaming, so that the beams go under rests instead of being separated by them (see some of those Mozart concerto pages); and how to "force" naturals/accidentals, as would happen in most regular scores- if there were 100 notes in a bar (Ack!!) and two of them at opposite ends of the bar were G-sharps (and the key-signature had G-natural) - the one on the right would have a (#) to remind the performer that the sharp at the beginning still held true, no interruption/natural... having shown up in the interim *g*. Whereas without using a notation -- G? -- in LilyPond, it would just show a g notehead, no reminder (#), etc. of course.
Good to know for this other project I'm doing, which will look better with "nice" beamings etc. (And which I can't show here- I have permission to do it but not to distribute it.)
Going to go listen to a Baroque sort-of-opera on BBC now. Toodle-pip, as Martin (a fellow I knew) did say and more than once.
