Re: Another documentation issue

2005-05-19 Thread Stephen
What I am saying is I am intrigued and impressed by the statement: Lilypond serves as a formal definition of a music document. I think this is a good goal and I serious when I say it is a superior goal to the goal of making Lilypond useful. That goal is too broad and invites the question 'Useful

Re: Another documentation issue

2005-05-19 Thread Stephen
Currently Metronome Marks is section number 8.3.1> Yes, but I am looking at the documentation currently online. It is just an example, I not trying to point out a problem that you have already solved Do you have any specific examples of un-lean format?> I am quoting from the documentation. I can'

Re: Another documentation issue

2005-05-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Stephen wrote: I think my main gripe is that there may be a trend towards catering to the requests of the user. Ideally, Lilypond should be made incapable of producing bad output. That means limiting the options and choices given to the user. I disagree with your reasoning, but that is besides t

Re: Another documentation issue

2005-05-19 Thread Stephen
I think my main gripe is that there may be a trend towards catering to the requests of the user. Ideally, Lilypond should be made incapable of producing bad output. That means limiting the options and choices given to the user. Usually I applaud when a developer responds to a user. But some use

Re: (Unified) index

2005-05-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Op 19-mei-05 om 20:19 heeft Graham Percival het volgende geschreven: Changelog-2.1: 2003-09-27 Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * scripts/lilypond.py (escape_path): escape quotes too. * Documentation/user/lilypond.tely (Unified index): rename Index to accomodate Windo

(Unified) index

2005-05-19 Thread Graham Percival
Changelog-2.1: 2003-09-27 Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * scripts/lilypond.py (escape_path): escape quotes too. * Documentation/user/lilypond.tely (Unified index): rename Index to accomodate Windows breakage. Can anybody remember why "Index" produces breakage on Win

Re: Another documentation issue

2005-05-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Graham Percival wrote: For instance, in 5.7.4 Metronome marks, 'See also' points to MetronomeChangeEvent. Why not replace that with MetronomeMark? In the MetronomeChangeEvent page, I click on Metronome_mark_engraver and from there MetronomeMark. Currently Metronome Marks is section number 8.3.1

Re: Another documentation issue

2005-05-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Stephen wrote: I wonder if all the developers are still on board with the goal of keeping the format 'as lean as possible'? > written, but still we have 'condensed' and 'lean' as words defining the purpose and goal of writing Lilypond and for Lilypond. My take on it is anyone who joins these two

Re: Another documentation issue

2005-05-19 Thread Graham Percival
On 19-May-05, at 7:48 AM, Stephen wrote: For instance, in 5.7.4 Metronome marks, 'See also' points to MetronomeChangeEvent. Why not replace that with MetronomeMark? In the MetronomeChangeEvent page, I click on Metronome_mark_engraver and from there MetronomeMark. Currently Metronome Marks is sec

Re: Another documentation issue

2005-05-19 Thread Stephen
Graham, That was my thought exactly, except instead of saying 'get rid of' I would have said 'replace'. For instance, in 5.7.4 Metronome marks, 'See also' points to MetronomeChangeEvent. Why not replace that with MetronomeMark? In the MetronomeChangeEvent page, I click on Metronome_mark_engrave

Re: Before 2.6 comes out...

2005-05-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Removing the ChangeLog might be a good idea anyway, since it is not of much use for users. However, I oppose to scrambling email addresses everywhere. It doesn't solve the problem of spam and worm-mail (your address is broad

Re: Before 2.6 comes out...

2005-05-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Removing the ChangeLog might be a good idea anyway, since it is not of much use for users. However, I oppose to scrambling email addresses everywhere. It doesn't solve the problem of spam and worm-mail (your address is broadcast via the mailinglist

Re: Before 2.6 comes out...

2005-05-19 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Removing the ChangeLog might be a good idea anyway, since it is not of much use for users. However, I oppose to scrambling email addresses everywhere. It doesn't solve the problem of spam and worm-mail (your address is broadcast via the mailinglist to virus-infested plat

Re: cindex, findex, vindex, fooindex

2005-05-19 Thread Graham Percival
On 18-May-05, at 8:23 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote: By the way, why is the index entitled "Unified Index"? I have never seen this formulation used anywhere else and from the email list, I have got the impression that many people have never realized that the manual has an index. I propose to rename it s

Re: Before 2.6 comes out...

2005-05-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Juergen Reuter wrote: ... I would like to ask if the e-Mail addresses in the ChangeLog could be either encrypted or replaced by e.g. http addresses. From carefully analyzing some of the countless spam mails and delivery failure notification mails, it looks like as if the ChangeLog file is one o