Re: point-and-click default

2022-01-05 Thread David Wright
On Sat 01 Jan 2022 at 22:27:31 (+0100), Valentin Petzel wrote: > May I just fan the fire by saying that on kde this works out of the box? > > That being said, the only really usable pnc implementation is Frescobaldi, as > that one will keep track while you’re editing the file and thus always poin

Re: point-and-click default

2022-01-04 Thread Federico Bruni
For the records, I've added an issue on Frescobaldi tracker: https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/issues/1412

Re: point-and-click default

2022-01-01 Thread Valentin Petzel
May I just fan the fire by saying that on kde this works out of the box? That being said, the only really usable pnc implementation is Frescobaldi, as that one will keep track while you’re editing the file and thus always point to the right thing. And I don’t see much of a problem with disablin

Re: point-and-click default

2022-01-01 Thread Wols Lists
On 30/12/2021 17:22, David Zelinsky wrote: In evince on my Ubuntu system, clicking on the note elicits an error, because evince does not know what to do with a "textedit:..." link. Section 4.1 of the Usage Manual (under 4. External Programs) explains how to make it work. Nor does my Windows set

Re: point-and-click default

2021-12-30 Thread David Kastrup
Lukas-Fabian Moser writes: > Hi David, >> I've been using Lilypond for a few years, and only yesterday learned >> about the point-and-click feature in pdf output. In particular, I had >> no idea that by default Lilypond includes absolute pathnames to local >> source files on my system as metadat

Re: point-and-click default

2021-12-30 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi David, I've been using Lilypond for a few years, and only yesterday learned about the point-and-click feature in pdf output. In particular, I had no idea that by default Lilypond includes absolute pathnames to local source files on my system as metadata in the pdf output files. So when I upl

Re: point-and-click default

2021-12-30 Thread David Zelinsky
David Zelinsky writes: > Tom Sgouros writes: > >> For those of us just catching up, can someone explain how to see the >> metadata? I guess this is more of a PDF question, but while I have some >> experts' attention... >> >> Thank you, >> >> -Tom > > I can only tell you about evince, the pdf re

Re: point-and-click default

2021-12-30 Thread David Zelinsky
Tom Sgouros writes: > For those of us just catching up, can someone explain how to see the > metadata? I guess this is more of a PDF question, but while I have some > experts' attention... > > Thank you, > > -Tom I can only tell you about evince, the pdf reader I use. But I expect it should be

Re: point-and-click default

2021-12-30 Thread David Zelinsky
Knute Snortum writes: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 7:13 PM David Zelinsky wrote: > [...] >> But even if it is configured to work, it seems like a REALLY BAD IDEA to >> have this feature enabled *by default*. Or, if it is to be the default, >> it ought to be mentioned VERY PROMINENTLY, so anyone in

Re: point-and-click default

2021-12-30 Thread Tom Sgouros
For those of us just catching up, can someone explain how to see the metadata? I guess this is more of a PDF question, but while I have some experts' attention... Thank you, -Tom On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 10:25 AM Knute Snortum wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 7:13 PM David Zelinsky > wrote: >

Re: point-and-click default

2021-12-30 Thread Knute Snortum
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 7:13 PM David Zelinsky wrote: [...] > But even if it is configured to work, it seems like a REALLY BAD IDEA to > have this feature enabled *by default*. Or, if it is to be the default, > it ought to be mentioned VERY PROMINENTLY, so anyone installing and > using Lilypond w

Re: point-and-click default

2021-12-30 Thread Kevin Barry
> > > This point-and-click seems like a useful feature for editing, *if* it's > configured to work on your system. But it apparently is not usually set > up that way by default, at least on most Linux systems. (I do > appreciate the instructions in the manual for configuring it, and plan > to do

point-and-click default

2021-12-29 Thread David Zelinsky
I'm about to rant about an existing Lilyond default. Really I want to suggest a change for the developers, but I'm not sure where or how to do that. So I'll start with this rant, and I'll be happy to take any more productive steps if someone can suggest what they should be. Or, if this issue has