Re: [GLISS] why the hell all this fuss (was: modern-straight-flag)

2012-09-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > I don't think this discussion is appropriate for bug-lilypond. > Please follow up on -devel. Sorry! I meant to post to -devel, don't know why it ended up in bug-. My bad. Janek ___ bug-lilypond

Re: [GLISS] why the hell all this fuss (was: modern-straight-flag)

2012-09-06 Thread Graham Percival
I don't think this discussion is appropriate for bug-lilypond. Please follow up on -devel. - Graham ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond

Re: [GLISS] why the hell all this fuss

2012-09-06 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: > >> Has anyone ever actually engaged with any major publishers to identify >> the factors that are of interest to them in engraving software, and >> the features that Lilypond would have to implement in order to meet >> their requirements?

Re: [GLISS] why the hell all this fuss

2012-09-06 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling writes: > Has anyone ever actually engaged with any major publishers to identify > the factors that are of interest to them in engraving software, and > the features that Lilypond would have to implement in order to meet > their requirements? Judging from my experience in

Re: [GLISS] why the hell all this fuss (was: modern-straight-flag)

2012-09-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: [1] Note, however, that ANY change, even a very small, subtle change, is a really grave argument for a music publisher against using lilypond. I wrote a huge piece (~95 pages full score, 23 orchestra instruments, choir, etc) a few years

Re: [GLISS] why the hell all this fuss

2012-09-06 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> His very point is that deprecated syntax must either cause a warning >> or an error *by running LilyPond itself*. I fully second that, and it >> would be a valuable task to check that for the transition from versio

Re: [GLISS] why the hell all this fuss

2012-09-06 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł writes: > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer > wrote: >> [1] Note, however, that ANY change, even a very small, subtle change, is a >> really grave argument for a music publisher against using lilypond. >> I wrote a huge piece (~95 pages full score, 23 orchestra in

Re: [GLISS] why the hell all this fuss

2012-09-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Interesting. I've never seen that before, I believe. Can you give >> a link to an image? > > Attached. Thanks. Indeed, I've never seen it before :-) > What i think of is a general way of attaching objects to another > objects. For example '&' would attach objects: > > \arpeggio&\< > > m

Re: [GLISS] why the hell all this fuss

2012-09-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> At that time, I really, really, really cursed lilypond and its >> frequent syntax changes. > > I think that's Graham's point: syntax changes are bad, so if we have > to make them (and apparently we still have to), let's do it once and > for all. Or at most 1-2 times per decade. I think that R

[GLISS] why the hell all this fuss (was: modern-straight-flag)

2012-09-05 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > [1] Note, however, that ANY change, even a very small, subtle change, is a > really grave argument for a music publisher against using lilypond. > I wrote a huge piece (~95 pages full score, 23 orchestra instruments, choir, > etc) a few