Re: [PATCH] Add \path markup command, and use it for \eyeglasses.

2010-06-21 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >>> From a syntactical point of view, I can't see an immediate benefit of >>> saying >>> >>>   #path:miter >>> >>> instead of >>> >>>   #'miter >> >> Hm?  Could you explain what constitutes a "syntactical point of >> view" in your book? > > I

Re: [PATCH] Add \path markup command, and use it for \eyeglasses.

2010-06-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> From a syntactical point of view, I can't see an immediate benefit of >> saying >> >> #path:miter >> >> instead of >> >> #'miter > > Hm? Could you explain what constitutes a "syntactical point of > view" in your book? I probably misformulated. I simply mean that the `path:' prefix is an

Re: [PATCH] Add \path markup command, and use it for \eyeglasses.

2010-06-20 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: >>> Looks good to me. It would be nice if I could say >>> >>> \path #0.25 #'miter #'square ##f #samplePath >>> >>> instead of using numbers for the second and third parameter. Is this >>> possible? >> >> How about defining constants path:miter and path:square instead?

Re: [PATCH] Add \path markup command, and use it for \eyeglasses.

2010-06-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Looks good to me. It would be nice if I could say >> >> \path #0.25 #'miter #'square ##f #samplePath >> >> instead of using numbers for the second and third parameter. Is this >> possible? > > How about defining constants path:miter and path:square instead? Then > \path does not need speci

Re: [PATCH] Add \path markup command, and use it for \eyeglasses.

2010-06-19 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: >> This is a feature I've wanted to add to LilyPond for a while, and I've >> posted a patch set on Rietveld: >> >> http://codereview.appspot.com/1730044/show >> >> Any comments are appreciated, especially regarding the syntactic >> requirements of the new command. > > Loo

Re: [PATCH] Add \path markup command, and use it for \eyeglasses.

2010-06-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> This is a feature I've wanted to add to LilyPond for a while, and I've > posted a patch set on Rietveld: > > http://codereview.appspot.com/1730044/show > > Any comments are appreciated, especially regarding the syntactic > requirements of the new command. Looks good to me. It would be nice i

[PATCH] Add \path markup command, and use it for \eyeglasses.

2010-06-19 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hello, This is a feature I've wanted to add to LilyPond for a while, and I've posted a patch set on Rietveld: http://codereview.appspot.com/1730044/show Any comments are appreciated, especially regarding the syntactic requirements of the new command. Thanks, Patrick ___