Re: PATCH: Lyrics break estimation of vertical spacing

2010-04-21 Thread Boris Shingarov
What makes me really depressed about the situation with pure-height, is that we have fixed a number of "reasonable" bugs in this area (intersystem begin/rest, overridden stem length, deprecated space, padding of markup -- these are the ones that I did in the immediate past, -- the slur fix from Jo

Re: PATCH: Lyrics break estimation of vertical spacing

2010-04-21 Thread Boris Shingarov
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:37:52 -0400, Boris Shingarov wrote: not closer to having reasonable trouble-free page layout, but starting > to look at page overfill/underfill problems which are very deeply > rooted in the nature of pure-height estimation. I meant Bug 1061 in particular.   _

Issue 1061 in lilypond: Pure-height inaccuracy very large when skyline significantly non-rectangular

2010-04-21 Thread lilypond
Status: Accepted Owner: Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium New issue 1061 by shingarov: Pure-height inaccuracy very large when skyline significantly non-rectangular http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1061 When the skylines are significantly non-rectangular, the inaccurac

Re: New Essay:nitpicking

2010-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi Alexander, On your point about technical restrictions: I would just say that by the time a musician becomes a professional he/she has read thousands of scores with rounded notes, non-pointy angles, heavy dynamics font, etc. I think "beauty" in this sense is of the practical variety,

New Essay:nitpicking

2010-04-21 Thread Alexander Deubelbeiss
I became aware of the Essay rewrite through the bug list and had a quick read-through of the new text. I agree it's an improvement over the old one, but would like to point out three minor matters. Typo: In the penultimate paragraph of _1.3 Automated engraving - Getting things right_, please re

Re: Issue 1000 in lilypond: send texi2html patches upstream

2010-04-21 Thread lilypond
Comment #5 on issue 1000 by percival.music.ca: send texi2html patches upstream http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1000 I really, really doubt that anybody is going to volunteer. *shrug* Our texi2html init file is a complete mess, but it's no worse than any other part of ou

Re: Issue 1000 in lilypond: send texi2html patches upstream

2010-04-21 Thread lilypond
Comment #4 on issue 1000 by markpolesky: send texi2html patches upstream http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1000 I'd prefer this to be done sooner than later, but I'm not the one for the job. It looks like the final texi2html release is imminent* and we don't want to miss it. W

Re: Issue 1000 in lilypond: send texi2html patches upstream

2010-04-21 Thread lilypond
Updates: Labels: Maintainability Comment #3 on issue 1000 by percival.music.ca: send texi2html patches upstream http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1000 One of us definitely needs to be involved. Throwing the entire init file at them without explanations would be cr

Re: Issue 1037 in lilypond: links to old manuals

2010-04-21 Thread lilypond
Updates: Status: Verified Comment #2 on issue 1037 by brownian.box: links to old manuals http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1037 (No comment was entered for this change.) -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or beca

Re: Issue 1058 in lilypond: Frequent Errors should be moved from Usage to Learning

2010-04-21 Thread lilypond
Updates: Status: Verified Comment #10 on issue 1058 by brownian.box: Frequent Errors should be moved from Usage to Learning http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1058 (No comment was entered for this change.) -- You received this message because you are listed in the own

Re: Issue 659 in lilypond: alternative segno symbol

2010-04-21 Thread lilypond
Updates: Status: Verified Comment #4 on issue 659 by brownian.box: alternative segno symbol http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=659 Verified by running a regtest: http://codereview.appspot.com/181144/patch/19001/20003 I wouldn't say that i know how it should be looking

Re: Issue 348 in lilypond: \unfoldRepeats { blah music } is different from { blah {music} }!

2010-04-21 Thread lilypond
Updates: Status: Verified Comment #2 on issue 348 by brownian.box: \unfoldRepeats { blah music } is different from { blah {music} }! http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=348 (No comment was entered for this change.) -- You received this message because you are listed i

Re: Issue 1000 in lilypond: send texi2html patches upstream

2010-04-21 Thread lilypond
Comment #2 on issue 1000 by markpolesky: send texi2html patches upstream http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1000 Is it just a matter of asking the texi2html guys to look over the lilypond-texi2html.init file or does one of us need to get involved and explain some of texi2html bug