Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

2021-11-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean, > 3. I believe you are a bit quick in believing you >will never, ever be able to write C++ code ;-) I didn’t say I wouldn’t be *able* to write C++ code… I said > but very little chance of ever C++-ing ;-) My prediction was more about my likely enthusiasm and commitment than my a

Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

2021-11-09 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 08/11/2021 à 21:13, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development a écrit : Am Sonntag, dem 07.11.2021 um 15:59 -0500 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Jonas, "Defect" is for problems within the "core program", which means either C++ or Scheme. I would argue that those two are not reall

Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

2021-11-08 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Kieren, A blatant counter-example is in the person of Harm. So C++ and Scheme *are* [as I first suggested] separable? There's lots of stuff one can do in Scheme alone. But it seems to me to be a non-trivial task in general to decide a priori whether, given a feature request or bug report

Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

2021-11-08 Thread Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development
Am Sonntag, dem 07.11.2021 um 15:59 -0500 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > Hi Jonas, > > > "Defect" is for problems within the "core program", > > which means either C++ or Scheme. I would argue that those two are not > > really separable in most cases > > Does that mean for someone like me — with a f

Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

2021-11-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Harm, > Start slowly, maybe with a markup-command you would like to have Okay! I’ve got one: I’d like to become an official #'style in TimeSignature. (This hasn’t been done yet, right?) Thanks, Kieren. Kieren MacM

Re: Issue difficulty tags (was: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names)

2021-11-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Carl, > As far as I can see, this is desirable, but certainly not low-hanging fruit. As I qualified, that’s from the metric of “motivation” (which was what Jean implied should be the main metric!). > If you could come up with a an algorithm that would allow me to Do The Right > Thing given

Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

2021-11-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean, >>> "Defect" is for problems within the "core program", >>> which means either C++ or Scheme. I would argue that those two are not >>> really separable in most cases >> Does that mean for someone like me — with a fighting chance of Scheme-ing, >> but very little chance of ever C++-ing —

Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

2021-11-07 Thread Thomas Morley
Am So., 7. Nov. 2021 um 22:30 Uhr schrieb Jean Abou Samra : > > Le 07/11/2021 à 21:59, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : > > Hi Jonas, > > > >> "Defect" is for problems within the "core program", > >> which means either C++ or Scheme. I would argue that those two are not > >> really separable in most case

Re: Issue difficulty tags (was: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names)

2021-11-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/7/21, 12:46 PM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Kieren MacMillan" wrote: Obvious “low-hanging fruit” [at least from the perspective of motivation]: I want — nay, need! — the part combiner to Do The Right Thing™: effectively unlimited voice inputs, no problem with quotes and lyric

Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

2021-11-07 Thread David Kastrup
Jean Abou Samra writes: > Le 07/11/2021 à 21:59, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : >> Hi Jonas, >> >>> "Defect" is for problems within the "core program", >>> which means either C++ or Scheme. I would argue that those two are not >>> really separable in most cases >> Does that mean for someone like me —

Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

2021-11-07 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 07/11/2021 à 21:59, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : Hi Jonas, "Defect" is for problems within the "core program", which means either C++ or Scheme. I would argue that those two are not really separable in most cases Does that mean for someone like me — with a fighting chance of Scheme-ing, but

Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

2021-11-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jonas, > "Defect" is for problems within the "core program", > which means either C++ or Scheme. I would argue that those two are not > really separable in most cases Does that mean for someone like me — with a fighting chance of Scheme-ing, but very little chance of ever C++-ing — there are

Re: Fwd: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

2021-11-07 Thread Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development
Am Sonntag, dem 07.11.2021 um 11:07 -0500 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > > > 2. Is there a tag/label on GitLab which identifies all and only > > > those issues which don’t (or at least shouldn’t likely) require > > > any C++ work? > > > > There isn't. We had Frog in the past (good for beginners, > >

Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

2021-11-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean, > On Nov 6, 2021, at 4:20 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > >> #1034 seems safe, there's no actual "programming" involved, as far as I can >> see. > > The NR appendix is autogenerated, so you'd need to add > a new optional keyword argument to define-music-function > like #:category for mar

Re: Issue difficulty tags (was: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names)

2021-11-07 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 07/11/2021 à 20:45, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : Hi Jean, The problem for both of these is that often, investigating what the bug is and how it might be fixed is the main part of the work. So if you have a good idea of what language is required and how hard it is, you're close enough to a fix

Re: Issue difficulty tags (was: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names)

2021-11-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean, > The problem for both of these is that often, > investigating what the bug is and how it > might be fixed is the main part of the work. > So if you have a good idea of what language > is required and how hard it is, you're > close enough to a fix that it's worth it > to actually prepare

Issue difficulty tags (was: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names)

2021-11-07 Thread Jean Abou Samra
contribute code directly to the codebase!! So… first bit of business, carried over from a -user thread: From: Jean Abou Samra mailto:j...@abou-samra.fr>> Subject: Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names Date: November 6, 2021 at 4:08:15 PM EDT To: Kieren Mac

Fwd: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names

2021-11-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
… first bit of business, carried over from a -user thread: > From: Jean Abou Samra mailto:j...@abou-samra.fr>> > Subject: Re: Manipulating instrument names and staff group names > Date: November 6, 2021 at 4:08:15 PM EDT > To: Kieren MacMillan <mailto:kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca&