2009/7/24 Mark Polesky <markpole...@yahoo.com>: > In a weird way, I don't think either is appropriate. Sometimes I wish > there was something like an LSRD (for developers). You know, snippets > showing how to trace grob-parents, how to sort objects by specific > properties, how to know when to use #'(0 . 1) and when to use > #'(-0.5 . 0.5). These sorts of things. > > What's sorely lacking in my opinion is a good reference documentation > for stuff like music-map, how to get a context from within a music- > function, the difference between ly:font-design-size and > ly:font-magnification, stuff like that. I'm learning all this stuff on > my own but it's like swimming through JELL-O. In the dark. And I think > there are a lot of useful functions that are totally undocumented (like > make-sequential-music and its kin). Sometimes I'll find stuff totally > accidentally, like lily-library.scm.
I can certainly see your point. > But really, my fancy trick for tracing grob-parents is so snippetish, > it wouldn't really belong in the conventional documentation. I think > there should be a "Snippets List for Developers" node on the > Developers resources page. May I invite you to add such snippets to the LSR, and tag it as "devel" for now? Then we'll able to gather only devel-tagged snippets on such a page. Regards, Valentin _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
