On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:15:35PM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote: > 2009/5/27 Daniel Hulme <s...@istic.org>: > > > Now to anticipate questions people are likely to ask in reply. I don't > > think there was any one part of the documentation that made me feel more > > confident about it: it was more a coming-together of the things I'd > > already learned. 'NR 6.3 Building complicated functions' was something I > > referred to a lot, and the command index. One slightly hard thing was > > that to find the page on options I can give to spanners I had to follow > > the chain 1.8 Text -> 1.8.1 Writing text -> Text spanners -> 5.4.7 Line > > styles -> 5.4.5 Spanners. The 'Text spanners' section just links to > > TextSpanner in the IR, which was much less useful to me; it would be > > great if it linked to 5.4.5 directly, and I will write a patch to that > > effect unless someone beats me to it. > > Well, it hadn't occurred to me to put such a link here, since the > Spanners per se are merely lines more than text... What kind of > options are you referring to? I can't really see how we could link > from 1.8.1.3 to 5.4.5 without going through 5.4.7...
Well, it didn't occur to me to look for spanners under 'Useful concepts and properties'. I remembered seeing text spanners in the Text section, so I found it there. I knew I wanted something a bit like the canonical example "rit . . . ", so I did it and then looked for how to change the appearance of it. This took me to the 'Line styles' link next, but I wanted to change the position of the line more than its dottedness, so I followed the only link on that page. The settings I actually ended up changing were 'text', 'stencil-align-dir-y', and 'to-barline'. To my mind, 5.4.5 is more general, telling me about all the settings I can change on the spanner, whereas 5.4.7 just tells me about the values I can set one setting to. I'd prefer having 5.4.5 in the See also, before 5.4.7, and then 5.4.5 discussing the 'style property and linking to 5.4.7. -- "And I see losing love is like a window in your heart: everybody sees you're blown apart; everybody sees the wind blow in Graceland." -- Paul Simon, 1986 http://surreal.istic.org/ An emergent, not a resultant.
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