Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 02:14:17PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> And if you think this is purely hypothetical, check out >> Documentation/snippets/incipit.ly. > > David, thank you for identifying a specific problematic example. > >> There are exceptions to every rule. But if you are calling for an >> exception because you lack the skills for following the rule, it is >> unlikely that your skills are sufficient for correctly identifying the >> exception. > > I think this is a bit too far. Phil is trying to solve a > long-standing *extremely* annoying bug for documentation writers > which has not attracted much attention from "real" programmers.
I can't actually help here since either problem description or what the patch is trying to achieve is utterly absent from the issue. <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2703> "Set indent based on instrument name" is all that is described anywhere. _How_ the indent is supposed to be based on instrument names, _when_ it is supposed to be based on instrument names, _what_ instrument names it is supposed to be base on, _which_ indent is supposed to be based on instrument names, _what_ problem this is trying to solve: I draw a blank. I can't even suggest what variables and organization to use here since I have no clue what the problem is, and what the solution tries to achieve. > I don't think that he realizes that he's asking for an exemption, > so no need to be rude about it. Please either give us some hints > about how to store the information in an acceptable manner, I can't since I have no idea what the code is supposed to do. At the current point of time I am pretty much reduced to stating that whatever the code may be trying to do, it will not work reliably, and point out why. But I can't help doing it right if I don't even get a chance to guess _what_ to do right. > or wait until Keith or Mike or somebody else has time to help. Phil > is *precisely* the kind of person that we want to be helping with > lilypond, so please don't discourage him. Well, he is trying to take a shortcut here. I can tell him that the shortcut is a dead end, but I since I have no idea where he actually wants to go, I can't suggest an alternative path. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
