On 2013/04/12 10:26:46, mail_philholmes.net wrote:
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> I think "retouching" is pretty much on spot. Asking the thesaurus
does
> not really deliver anything more convincing:
Sorry - I don't agree. In native English, retouching has a strong connotation of dabbing something like paint over another patch of paint to correct something that doesn't look right.
And indeed, the very first actual code example in the "tweaks" section changes notehead colours to green and red.
PhotoShop-type programs are known for their retouching ability. In contract, fine-tuning is taking something that's fairly OK as it is and making it better - exactly what we've considered to be a tweak. IMO fine-tuning is a perfectly acceptable description - retouching would not work.
How is coloring noteheads green and red "fine-tuning"? I suspect you are objecting to the naming change without looking at the actual contents of the section, just judging from its old name or your memory. The section isn't about fine-tuning (though it is helpful when fine-tuning is your goal). Indeed, since we don't want to rewrite the section all the time just because LilyPond keeps getting better, the examples in this section tend _not_ to be fine-tuning but rather pretty thorough changes. Changes that won't get redundant when LilyPond gets better. There _has_ been more documentation of fine-tuning changes in historic times but many of them got thrown out eventually because they stopped having an effect or made things worse as LilyPond got better out of the box. https://codereview.appspot.com/8575044/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
