Hello Simon, Answered by mistake, sorry for the noise!
JM > Le 18 août 2015 à 18:53, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> a écrit : > > Hello Jacques, > > seems there has been some kind of error – did you forget to insert your > actual replay text? > > Yours, Simon > > Am 18.08.2015 um 18:30 schrieb Jacques Menu: >>> Le 18 août 2015 à 17:50, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> a écrit : >>> >>> BB <bb-543...@telecolumbus.net> writes: >>> >>>> A compromise may be to keep \times for "old" lilypond users but omit >>>> it from the new german versions of the manual in favor of >>>> \tuplet. There are some good reasons to use \tuplet - at least for >>>> me. I do not want to stress the ethymology of the meaning of "times" >>>> in this context. >>> Oh, that's "offene Türen einrennen" as it would be called in German. >>> It's what has been done in the English manual quite a while ago and >>> naturally the German translation is slated to follow suit. >>> >>> It's just that the German translation is outdated. When a translation >>> becomes outdated, some code passages still tend to be updated >>> automatically (this is necessary or they would stop compiling >>> altogether), causing the text and the examples to drift apart. >>> >>> The German translation has not really been updated for more than a year. >>> It's more or less stuck at 2.16 or even late 2.14. We just had a >>> volunteer starting to look at the translation; maybe stuff will get >>> better soon. >>> >>> So there is really no disagreement over whether \times should mostly be >>> removed from the manual: that's already been done in the English manuals >>> quite a while ago. The German documentation just has to catch up, and >>> the simple-minded proposal of just replacing \times by \tuplet without >>> changing anything else would create a wrong rather than just outdated >>> manual entry. So it seems saner to leave that replacement for the time >>> when the translation is going to be updated. >>> >>> -- >>> David Kastrup >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> lilypond-user mailing list >>> lilypond-user@gnu.org >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
