2015-08-10 13:47 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> writes:
>> In my thinking that's absolute crude. Better wording would have been: strange as strange could be... >> Though, obviously there are other opinions about that. >> >> Patches are always welcome. > > But one needs to be warned that they may meet resistance to acceptance, > so there is some sense in figuring out the other developers' opinions > before investing a lot of work, at least if one's ultimate goal is the > inclusion as an integral part of the standard LilyPond distribution. > > A somewhat smaller but comparable can of worms is \relative mode. > A frequent topic on the mailing list is "how do I make my music > functions work in \relative mode?" and often answers are not > straightforward. Many LSR snippets work only either in absolute mode or > in relative mode, and not necessarily reliably so. > > So it is pretty much established that the music-based approach comes > with a healthy load of problems, and the input language based approach, > while condensing most of the problems in one place, makes source code > management a headache because each source code passage comes with its > own associated input language. Well, I will not work on such a patch. I already had a hard time to understand the thinking behind the proposal. Though, at a lower level one could start adding a snippet to the LSR so that users can play around with it. Rale mentioned some, but refused to post links... Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
