Re: [frogs] Re: Doc - explaining layout dimensions

2009-03-01 Thread ian
Hi all, Graham Percival wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:05:26AM -0700, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >> I think that Graham wants to draw a distinction between Frogs, whose primary >> purpose is to fix bugs in the code, and documentation developers, whose >> primary purpose is to improve the documen

Re: [frogs] Re: Doc - explaining layout dimensions

2009-02-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Carl D. Sorensen wrote: 2009/1/11 Graham Percival : Jonathan: another item for you. Frogs, this could be a task for you guys. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-01/msg00035.html Regards, Valentin Just so you'll know, I took care of this request ages ago when Graham first

Re: [frogs] Re: Doc - explaining layout dimensions

2009-02-28 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Graham Percival wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 05:35:07PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: 2009/2/28 Graham Percival : Yes, absolutely! Jonathan Kulp is handling (or learning how to handle) normal doc updating tasks. I'm not certain if he signed up as a Frog; if he did, this would contribute

Re: [frogs] Re: Doc - explaining layout dimensions

2009-02-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 05:35:07PM +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote: > 2009/2/28 Graham Percival : > > Yes, absolutely!  Jonathan Kulp is handling (or learning how to > > handle) normal doc updating tasks.  I'm not certain if he signed > > up as a Frog; if he did, this would contribute to this confu

Re: [frogs] Re: Doc - explaining layout dimensions

2009-02-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/2/28 Graham Percival : > Yes, absolutely!  Jonathan Kulp is handling (or learning how to > handle) normal doc updating tasks.  I'm not certain if he signed > up as a Frog; if he did, this would contribute to this confusion. Actually, I did have Jonathan in mind, more or less, but I CCed to th

Re: [frogs] Re: Doc - explaining layout dimensions

2009-02-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:05:26AM -0700, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > I think that Graham wants to draw a distinction between Frogs, whose primary > purpose is to fix bugs in the code, and documentation developers, whose > primary purpose is to improve the documentation. Yes, absolutely! Jonathan K

Re: [frogs] Re: Doc - explaining layout dimensions

2009-02-28 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
Valentin, I think that Graham wants to draw a distinction between Frogs, whose primary purpose is to fix bugs in the code, and documentation developers, whose primary purpose is to improve the documentation. To a certain extent I created some confusion between the two, because my initial Frog tas

Re: Doc - explaining layout dimensions

2009-02-28 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/1/11 Graham Percival : > Jonathan: another item for you. Frogs, this could be a task for you guys. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-01/msg00035.html Regards, Valentin ___ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://l

Re: Doc - explaining layout dimensions

2009-01-10 Thread Graham Percival
Jonathan: another item for you. Don't worry about the formatting or the exact spacing; just shove it in there, since NR 4 is slated for a complete rewrite in a few months. Cheers, - Graham On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:03:51PM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote: > Robin Bannister wrote: > > Readers are not

Re: Doc - explaining layout dimensions

2009-01-10 Thread Mark Polesky
Robin Bannister wrote: > Readers are not told what size a point is; > they have to work it out from the example given. > So it is important to get this right: 105 mm Another confusion readers may have is that staff-size and staff-height seem to be used interchangeably, for example in NR 4.2.1

Doc - explaining layout dimensions

2009-01-10 Thread Robin Bannister
> 148 millimeters, the height of a6 paper in landscape orientation says v2.12 NR 4.6.1. Readers are not told what size a point is; they have to work it out from the example given. So it is important to get this right: 105 mm Cheers, Robin ___ bu