music glossary

[C.Flothow]

1. IMHO, under the heading "appoggiatura" there should be a cross
reference similar to the one under "acciaccatura".
    Not having an English music education it was not clear to me that
You have to look under "grace notes" to find more about issues
concerning appoggiaturas.
    Are there more musical expressions which come under the same head?

2. It would greatly improve usability of the glossary if You had an
index of the terms of Your own language (eg. German) and need not rely
on the use of searches.
    In a later version the references in the German manual could go not
just to the glossary but to the right place in the index (?).

    If nobody else is doing this anyway I would volunteer for the German
version (but I would need a few weeks time).

Chris




_______________________________________________
lilypond-user mailing list
lilypond-user@...
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

[Graham Percival-3]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:12:10PM +0100, C.Flothow wrote:
> 2. It would greatly improve usability of the glossary if You had an  
> index of the terms of Your own language (eg. German) and need not rely  
> on the use of searches.

Texinfo only supports having 5-6 different indexes.  So for this,
you'd either need to:
1) ask the texinfo + texi2html + maybe texi2pdf  authors to
increase this number.
2) make combined indices -- say, "Romance", "Germanic", "Slavic",
and "Asian" ?

Cheers,
- Graham


_______________________________________________
lilypond-user mailing list
lilypond-user@...
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:03 PM

> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:12:10PM +0100, C.Flothow wrote:
>> 2. It would greatly improve usability of the glossary if You had
>> an
>> index of the terms of Your own language (eg. German) and need not
>> rely
>> on the use of searches.
>
> Texinfo only supports having 5-6 different indexes.  So for this,
> you'd either need to:
> 1) ask the texinfo + texi2html + maybe texi2pdf  authors to
> increase this number.
> 2) make combined indices -- say, "Romance", "Germanic", "Slavic",
> and "Asian" ?

The Glossary has no index at present, just a table of contents.  I
see no reason (other than an awful lot of typing) why index entries
should not be added for every term in every language.  There would
be no (technical) problem combining them all in a single index,
would there?

Trevor



_______________________________________________
lilypond-user mailing list
lilypond-user@...
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

[Graham Percival-3]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 06:21:48PM -0000, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>
> Graham Percival wrote Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:03 PM
>
>> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:12:10PM +0100, C.Flothow wrote:

>> Texinfo only supports having 5-6 different indexes.  So for this,
>> you'd either need to:
>> 1) ask the texinfo + texi2html + maybe texi2pdf  authors to
>> increase this number.
>> 2) make combined indices -- say, "Romance", "Germanic", "Slavic",
>> and "Asian" ?
>
> The Glossary has no index at present, just a table of contents.  I see no
> reason (other than an awful lot of typing) why index entries should not
> be added for every term in every language.  There would be no (technical)
> problem combining them all in a single index, would there?

Nope, no problem with that.  But I thought the original question
was about having a German-specific index?

I don't mind the combined indices idea; the musical terms in
various language families are probably close enough that it
wouldn't be confusing to mix them together.

Cheers,
- Graham


_______________________________________________
lilypond-user mailing list
lilypond-user@...
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user