Comment #4 on issue 1988 by d...@gnu.org: Patch: Rename \markuplines to
\markuplist (before running convert-ly)
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1988
@Graham: you marked this as Needs_evidence. Please compile the following
file written in current syntax and look at its output.
z = \markuplines { a b c }
\markup { \concat \z }
\markup { \fill-line \z }
\markup { \justify \z }
\markup { \line \z }
Note that all of those commands are documented in the notation manual (not
some Scheme programming manual or whatever else) to take an argument of
type "markup list". All of those markups produce the material in
horizontal orientation, not in lines. Even if you take commands like
\column that would produce a vertical arrangement, the items in this
arrangement explicitly aren't lines. They just have their natural width
without any padding.
Could you please explain how you think that this current situation helps
a "normal user" rather than confuse him?
I don't get it.
And I don't get your label "Patch-needs_work" either. It is not like the
documentation would require any rewording: it always and consistently talks
about markup lists, in notation manual and extending. Only the name
\markuplines itself sticks out like a sore thumb without rhyme or reason.
So if you are of the opinion that the patch needs work, please give any
evidence that the state after the patch is inconsistent. That you have
gotten used to the previous inconsistence does not mean that a larger
change is called for.
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