Re: Male/female/other

2004-09-13 Thread Hans Forbrich
On Monday 13 September 2004 12:09, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I suppose that since there's only -two- instances in which this is an > > issue, it really doesn't matter. And since they're in the wordy > > introduction rather than the "real" manual, it matters even less.

Does "-f tex --tex" influence char selection?

2004-09-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > * Could someone else verify my observations by running lilypond from > the command line directly on lily-833201559.ly (with the > "toplevel-score-handler" line commented out or removed) and compare the > result with the figure in section 5.17.9.1 of the manua

Re: other manual style issues

2004-09-13 Thread Benjamin Esham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 13, 2004, at 1:08 AM, Graham Percival wrote: Doesn't that last paragraph look weird without a period at the end of the final sentence? Yes, but I think a colon at the end of that last sentence would do the job. In contrast, consider the follow

Re: GUI for Lilypond

2004-09-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 13 September 2004 12.32, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Graham Percival wrote: > > There are also some text editors that are integrated with LilyPond to a > > less or greater extent -- Emacs, vim, jedit, etc. See the manual for > > details about GUIs and text e

Re: Before releasing 3.0 ...

2004-09-13 Thread Graham Percival
On 13-Sep-04, at 7:20 AM, Juergen Reuter wrote: ... could you this time please post a warning to lilypond-devel a couple of days before? There are a few annoying bugs and missing docu that I would like to fix/contribute, but due to limited time, I have to schedule things on the fly. Therefore,

[bug] Lilypond ignores comments in \paper section

2004-09-13 Thread Graham Percival
% the two staff lines are really close; LilyPond should be ignoring the % commented out minimumVerticalExtent line. % recent CVS, at some point after 2.3.16 \version "2.3.16" \score{ << \new Staff \relative c''{ \repeat unfold 32 { c4 c c c } } \new Staff \relative c''{ \repeat

Re: Male/female/other

2004-09-13 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > I think that hand-engraving dates from the time that women did not > participate much in professional life Indeed, so wouldn't using 'he' instead of 'she' here not be extra unkind to the [very few] women who were engravers? I'm not sure there were none. >, so I find t

Male/female/other

2004-09-13 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I suppose that since there's only -two- instances in which this is an > issue, it really doesn't matter. And since they're in the wordy > introduction rather than the "real" manual, it matters even less. But, > having introduced this matter here, I'd like to get his r

Re: Male/female/other

2004-09-13 Thread Juergen Reuter
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Graham Percival wrote: > ... > "Engraving was a highly specialized skill, a craftsman had > to complete around five years of training before she could > be a master engraver." > What about: "Engraving was a highly specialized skill; a craftsman had to complete around five

other manual style issues

2004-09-13 Thread Graham Percival
Ok, now that the silly gender issues have their own thread, let's discuss real issues. I have one request for 2-space tabs for examples in the manual. I'm happy with this. Any objections? Punctuation before an example: if we have a small amount of text, I'm content to have the text flow dire

potential stem-direction bug

2004-09-13 Thread Graham Percival
Should the b4. stem be going up? LilyPond places it going down. I don't know enough about engraving to say whether this is actually a bug or not. \version "2.3.16" \bookpaper{ raggedright = ##t } { \relative c''{ \time 5/8 b4.( ~ b8[ a)] } } ___

potential bug: crescendi not on same line

2004-09-13 Thread Graham Percival
Again, I don't know enough about engraving to definitely call this a bug, but it looks a bit weird to me -- I thought that all dynamics on one line of music be at the same level. \version "2.3.16" { \relative c'{ \clef alto \time 3/4 f4\< e b \time 5/8 c4.\!\>( ~ c8[ b]) a4. ~ a4\! f4.\< e4 \

Male/female/other

2004-09-13 Thread Graham Percival
I've rewritten a few entries in the music glossary to avoid completely avoid singular pronouns. This leaves me with two examples (out of the entire LilyPond docs); both from the introduction. I suppose that since there's only -two- instances in which this is an issue, it really doesn't matter. An

Does "-f tex --tex" influence char selection?

2004-09-13 Thread Juergen Reuter
Hi! One of the most outstanding bugs in ancient notation which I am still trying to fix is that sometimes wrong characters are chosen within mensural ligatures. However, on my machine this bug occurs only when building the documentation, but not when running lilypond manually from the command

Re: fact check for manual: devel bugs

2004-09-13 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Sunday 12 September 2004 15.20, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > So: In my eyes, the following is a good bug report: > > > > It seems that the slur engine doesn't look at accidentals. In the > > following example, the slur touches the accidental. > > > > Using Mac OSX 10.3

Before releasing 3.0 ...

2004-09-13 Thread Juergen Reuter
... could you this time please post a warning to lilypond-devel a couple of days before? There are a few annoying bugs and missing docu that I would like to fix/contribute, but due to limited time, I have to schedule things on the fly. Therefore, it would be very helpful to get a warning to a

Re: GUI for Lilypond

2004-09-13 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Graham Percival wrote: > There are also some text editors that are integrated with LilyPond to a > less or greater extent -- Emacs, vim, jedit, etc. See the manual for > details about GUIs and text editor stuff. Not to forget jEdit... I think it is not reasonable to emb

--tex option

2004-09-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[2.3.16] What exactly does lilypond's `--tex' option? Used alone it hasn't any effect at all. Searching in lilypond.info, I can't find an explanation of `--tex' at all... It seems that it should be removed. Werner ___ lilypond-devel mailing l

documantion of \box is bad

2004-09-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
In lilypond.info: `\box' ARG (markup) Draw a box round ARG. Looks at `thickness' and `box-padding' to determine line thickness and padding around the markup. What does this mean? Without an example, this is incomprehensible (especially since box-padding isn't defined somewhere else