Re: reading material?

2004-03-23 Thread Douglas A Linhardt
I really struggled with whether I should responding to this thread any more. I'm not trying to stir up controversy, but I hate when I'm unclear, and I end up being misinterpretted. I will try to keep this short, and hopefully non-controversial. And then that's it--no more responses from me to thi

Re: reading material?

2004-03-22 Thread Douglas A Linhardt
Agreed. We're off target. And I'm not trying to start a flame war. I really don't want to start an argument. I just want to I promise not to post any more to this thread (unless, of course I change my mind ;) ). > > We're going off-topic here, but I'm pretty sure that you know as well > as I

Re: reading material?

2004-03-19 Thread Douglas A Linhardt
>>* Han-Wen Nienhuys ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >>>We have actually gotten to the point that we have a slight dislike for >>>C++ as an implementation language. I recommend to learn Scheme and >> >>I'm learning C++ to use in sound synthesis programs and to be able to >>hack lilypond. Could you sh

Re: Documentation of Architecture / Design?

2004-03-19 Thread Douglas A Linhardt
Han-Wen, On 3/19/2004 4:43 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> (iterator-ctor . ,Percent_repeat_iterator::constructor) >> >>I'm really confused. When macro arguments are concatenated to form new tokens, >>there should be, at minimum, some comments describing what's

Re: Documentation of Architecture / Design?

2004-03-19 Thread Douglas A Linhardt
Han-Wen, It wouldn't hurt. But that's not really what I'm approaching. My point wasn't so much that the code needs to be cleaned up, but that there should be a web page / document / something that a developer can refer to to know where to look. In this example, I couldn't immendiately find VIRT

Re: Documentation of Architecture / Design?

2004-03-19 Thread Douglas A Linhardt
Han-Wen, > > That would be most welcome! > > I must admit that when I want to know how a program works, I use grep > and emacs and dive into the source code. The comments and the code > itself are usually more revealing than technical documents. > > Can you tell me where you started looking and wh

Documentation of Architecture / Design?

2004-03-19 Thread Douglas A Linhardt
All, I've recently gotten involved in the lilypond cause (2 bug fixes submitted, a couple of features underway). My problem is I don't have a firm understanding of how everything comes together. I've read through the Programmer's Reference (PR), but it isn't what I'm looking for. I think what's

Autochange bug and patch

2004-03-17 Thread Douglas A Linhardt
Users, Just FYI, I'm working on a tweak to the autochange feature that would allow the user to declare that middle C will always be in the lower staff. always in the upper staff, or (by default) the current behavior. This is very important in standard handbell music because middle C is always wri

Re: Merging different fonts

2004-03-15 Thread Douglas A Linhardt
Han-Wen, On 3/15/2004 12:20 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >>>necessary? If not, then we can skip that option, and simply never >>>merge if styles are different. >> >>I considered that, but I saw the pattern for different heads and >>different dottings. Not having much

Re: Merging different fonts

2004-03-15 Thread Douglas A Linhardt
On 3/13/2004 6:00 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Patch looks OK in principle, but I have some further questions and comments. > Thanks. Any comments are appreciated. > * Can you think of any case where merge-differently-fonted is > necessary? If not, then we can skip that option, and simply nev