On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Graham Percival wrote:
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:06:27AM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote:
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Robert Clausecker
<fuz...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys!
As we have a good support for SVG now, wouldn't it be nice to add a
--svg switch to the program, so that you can write
lilypond --svg fancystuff.ly
I think we can safely assume that this kind of users *also* tend to
know what a program's Documentation is, and where to look for it.
What do you think?
Hmm. This is prompting a rather harsh reaction from me which will
predictably draw all kinds of flames. I am always bemused by the
recurrent user-dismissive attitude that pervades Unix-based FOSS
projects:
Ironically, I'm the resident champinion of the "shut up and read
the docs, you stupid user" camp for lilypond, but I thought the
email was completely valid.
LOL!
- it was sent to bug-lilypond, which is where it should be.
- it was a well-written, well-reasoned feature request.
- it would unquestionably bring lilypond usage into a more
consistent manner ( -f=xyz or --xyz )
Now, I recall this being discussed a few years ago, and there was
some reason why it was difficult to implement -f=svg. So there's
virtually no chance of it getting included before 2.14... but the
feature request itself was, as far as I can tell, completely fine.
The only reason why it shouldn't be in the tracker is if there's
*already* a request for this precise thing.
(I know it was discussed a few years ago, but I'm not certain if
it got a tracker issue)
We've got a bunch of arcane stuff in Lilypond, which is why we have
four PDF files of documentation with a total of 1205 pages (for
12.2.3),
Much more than four, BTW. I think we have 10.
Ooh, I'm behind the times. I only have four on my hard drive!
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