Paul,
Sorry to disagree, but fixed pitch is _so_ much easier to lay out in an
editor. Documentation flows nicely with variable pitch and fancy
hidden formats, but for code (and Lily's input is a programming
language) you just want the plain line-by-line ASCII. It is, as you
say, industry standard; and that is for a good reason.
Regards,MartinOn Tue, 2022-01-04 at 10:14 +0000, Paul McKay wrote:
> Hi
> Speaking as someone whose eyesight isn't quite as good as it used to
> be, I'd like to suggest that anything in a colour is also in bold so
> that there are enough pixels for me to see what the colour is.
>
> And this seems the appropriate place to ask why the examples are all
> in fixed pitch Courier in any case. I know this is kind of industry
> standard but it's one I don't find particularly helpful. I was once
> adept on the card punch machines and mechanical typewriters, but I
> think most of us abandoned fixed pitch fonts long, long ago. I'd
> suggest a sans serif font so that there's a clear contrast with the
> Georgia used as the text font in the documentation. Helvetica,
> Franklin Gothic and Source Sans Pro look good but I realize they
> might not be available on some platforms.
>
> HTH
> Paul McKay
>
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 23:33, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Flaming Hakama by Elaine <ela...@flaminghakama.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >
> > > In this sense, it seems like the place that has the most
> > potential use
> >
> > > for helping people distinguish different data types is where the
> >
> > > syntax is the most complicated and dense, which is in music
> > entry.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > The ability to quickly distinguish articulations, dynamics,
> > notes, and
> >
> > > durations seems like it would probably be most useful to people
> >
> > > reading examples in docs, since that is the most unusual aspect
> > of
> >
> > > lilypond syntax.
> >
> >
> >
> > I find splitting a8 into different colors about as helpful for
> > reading
> >
> > music as coloring note stems differently would be for reading score
> >
> > sheets: there is a standard place they are attached to anyway and
> > there
> >
> > is no particular reason to look elsewhere.
> >
> >
> >
> > It would be much more useful to highlight note lengths separated by
> >
> > space but still common to a preceding note or rest, like
> >
> >
> >
> > \drummode { bd4 r r 4. 8 }
> >
> >
> >
> > where the 4. is sucked into the second r likely unintentionally.
> >
> > Highlighting this is helpful. When there is a general "angry fruit
> >
> > salad" flavor pervading the highlighting with lots of colors
> > everywhere,
> >
> > there just is not a lot of attention one can draw to actually
> > important
> >
> > things.
> >
> >
> >
--
J Martin Rushton MBCS
