Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:28 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Jonathan Wilkes writes: > >> Well it's definitely a pain.  My favorites are booleans, which require >> one hash to denote scheme code, and one hash for the boolean.  (Why >> not one more hash, for good measure?) > > The character "#" would b

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-13 Thread David Kastrup
Jonathan Wilkes writes: > Well it's definitely a pain.  My favorites are booleans, which require > one hash to denote scheme code, and one hash for the boolean.  (Why > not one more hash, for good measure?) The character "#" would be written as ##\# when accessed from LilyPond. So what? -- Dav

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
Trevor Daniels wrote Thursday, April 12, 2012 9:55 PM James Harkins wrote Thursday, April 12, 2012 5:08 PM Still, it might be helpful to link to this page from some other places, say, "Tweaking methods." For instance, ~~~ The general syntax of this command is: \override Context.LayoutO

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
James Harkins wrote Thursday, April 12, 2012 5:08 PM Still, it might be helpful to link to this page from some other places, say, "Tweaking methods." For instance, ~~~ The general syntax of this command is: \override Context.LayoutObject #'layout-property = #value This will set the

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-12 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
> Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:32:28 +0800 > From: James Harkins > To: lily-users > Subject: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference > Message-ID: <87iph5ulcj.wl%jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 &

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-12 Thread James Harkins
At Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:55:24 +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Along with the existing documentation about overrides and tweaks, it would > > be helpful to have a page -- which is easy to find -- listing all the data > > types and the syntax to write them. > > This existing page seems to be what

Re: Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
James Harkins wrote Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:32 PM Along with the existing documentation about overrides and tweaks, it would be helpful to have a page -- which is easy to find -- listing all the data types and the syntax to write them. This existing page seems to be what you are requesti

Suggestion for documentation: Easy path to datatype reference

2012-04-12 Thread James Harkins
Along with the existing documentation about overrides and tweaks, it would be helpful to have a page -- which is easy to find -- listing all the data types and the syntax to write them. Example: Today, I was trying to write my own \override for the first time. To make matters more challenging,