On 06.01.2008 (14:21), Reilly wrote: > Eyolf, > > On Jan 6, 2008, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Perhaps I misunderstand the purpose of Graham's example question.
It's easy: the purpose of ALL of Graham's examples is that THIS TAKES RESOURCES and no matter how good the idea is, someone has to do it. :) It's annoying as hell, but he's right... > In re your clarification re > falls and doits above (a), yes, lots of variations, sometimes the length of > the gliss indicates length of fall or doit. The fall/doit "symbol" is > something like a musical font. I personally would not tweak this feature > much, unless I hated the preset symbol. Thanks > I think we disagree slightly on how my proposal would work (or, perhaps, how > people behave). If I have to notate a classical guitar passage and I consult > the Lilypond documentation and I find it inadequate, it is expecting a lot > of my --- aka, the casual music engraver --- to rewrite the documentation > and send it to "somebody." (I don't even know to whom I would send it.) On > the other hand, if I am a subscriber to a Lilypond Resource List and a > specific question comes along to which I know the answer, I think I would be > inclined to answer it. I do agree that from the documentation team's point > of view it is more practical for volunteers to commit to rewrite sections of > the manual. I was thinking more along the lines of: person A writes a lot of guitar scores, over the years (or months) he has aquired a good understanding of how the guitar-specific features of LP work, and he has also assembled a number of tweaks. He would be in a better position to rewrite those sections or come up with good/annoying questions than person B, who only writes polyrhytmic stuff for gamelan gongs. I was unclear about the "somebody" part. This list is a good candidate (although things tend to disappear in the bulk of messages here unless one has a good email client and working habits; I try to flag important messages, but I know I miss things); the docs meister is another -- once there is one again. > ps: How would an English speaker pronounce your name? Eye-olph with the stress on the first syllable. Should be easy, but I have friends who still call me Eee-loph, even after almost a decade... Eyolf -- The Principal of Greenbow County Central Schools: "Your momma sure does care 'bout your schoolin' son" _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
