Re: GDP: perl programmer needed for creating HTML docs

2007-09-27 Thread Graham Percival
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Graham Percival writes: We currently use `makeinfo --html' to build the online documentation. Makeinfo is the normal way to create texinfo docs, but it lacks many useful features. Most importantly, it can't create HTML pages split into subsections; it only creates spli

GDP: warning about writing lilypond examples

2007-09-27 Thread Graham Percival
If you write (or significantly modify) any lilypond examples, be careful about the limited spacing in the manual. Specifically, all examples in the manual are created with this block: \paper { #(define dump-extents #t) line-width = 160\mm - 2.0 * 0.4\in ragged-right = ##t indent = 0\m

Re: Tabs

2007-09-27 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Ralph Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > Ah, sorry, I should have made myself clearer - I meant in Lilypond > source code. :D > > 2 spaces it is.. 2 spaces, but "C-x h M-x tabify"ed. nicolas ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.

Re: Copyright, new branches etc

2007-09-27 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, Sorry, I should also have officially mentioned that I am tackling the *long* promised Braille output option for Lilypond. This is a *serious* effort to get this done. I currently have some scheme and C++ code for manipulating Braille. Also, I have modified a recent git pull to replicate th

Re: Tabs

2007-09-27 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, Ah, sorry, I should have made myself clearer - I meant in Lilypond source code. :D 2 spaces it is.. Regards, Ralph Graham Percival wrote: Ralph Little wrote: I have looked at the GNU coding style recommendations, but could not see a preference for the use of tab characters in code. Do

Copyright, new branches etc

2007-09-27 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, Sorry, some more coding questions. I've made quite a few mods to about 30 or so files and created a few of my own in my local git pull of Lilypond. It occurs to me that I should start doing it properly now ;) Should I get permission to create a new branch? For new files, what is the situa

Re: Tabs

2007-09-27 Thread Graham Percival
Ralph Little wrote: I have looked at the GNU coding style recommendations, but could not see a preference for the use of tab characters in code. Do we use tabs in Lilypond code, or 2 spaces? In the documentation, we use two spaces. That's mentioned in the README for doc writers. For your o

Tabs

2007-09-27 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, I have looked at the GNU coding style recommendations, but could not see a preference for the use of tab characters in code. Do we use tabs in Lilypond code, or 2 spaces? Regards, Ralph ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org htt

Re: Images missing in learning manual doc build

2007-09-27 Thread John Mandereau
Le mercredi 26 septembre 2007 à 15:47 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit : > John, sorry to add another thing to your plate, but could you > investigate this? Fixed in GDP. There was nothing to investigate, it was simply one of those ugly ad-hoc constructs that need to be updated each time you split

GDP: weekly assignments for Formatters

2007-09-27 Thread Graham Percival
Ok, formatting helpers, I've finalized things. http://opihi.cs.uvic.ca/~gperciva/gdp/ Your source files are in: doc-src/ Instructions are in: helper-begin.txt readme.txt With more info about texinfo in the texinfo-*.txt files. Try to have fun, and feel free to email me as often as possible --

Re: GDP: perl programmer needed for creating HTML docs

2007-09-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Graham Percival writes: > We currently use `makeinfo --html' to build the online documentation. > Makeinfo is the normal way to create texinfo docs, but it lacks many > useful features. Most importantly, it can't create HTML pages split > into subsections; it only creates split output based on no