Merge branch 'master' of ssh://jomand@git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/lilypond into dev/jmandereau

[lilypond.git] / Documentation / user / writing-texinfo.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/user/writing-texinfo.txt b/Documentation/user/writing-texinfo.txt
index 98272f9a6889b6d753fa443b49b9041bf902d767..7913ed0ad76407f366f13ed43d7e14c82b462021 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/user/writing-texinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user/writing-texinfo.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ commands.
   to this scheme construct.  ie
     \set Staff.instrumentName = #"cello"
 
+* Examples should end with a complete bar if possible.
+
 * If possible, only write one bar per line.  The notes on each
   line should be an independent line -- tweaks should occur on
   their own line if possible.
@@ -159,6 +161,19 @@ commands.
 
   Do not use @itemize @bullet.
 
+* To get LilyPond version, use @version{} (this does not work inside
+  LilyPond snippets).  If you write "@version{}" (enclosed with
+  quotes), or generally if @version{} is not followed by a space,
+  enclose it with
+
+  @w{ ... }
+
+  e.g.
+
+  @w{"@version{}"}
+
+  to prevent an ugly line break in PDF output.
+
 
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