Re: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/30, John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > See Guile docs; there may be installed in Info format on your GNU/Linux > system. I'm not a Scheme specialist, but I think you should generally > consider RxRS as a standard specification, and always look at Guile docs > to look for additional feat

Re: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-30 Thread John Mandereau
Le mercredi 30 janvier 2008 à 10:32 +0100, Valentin Villenave a écrit : > Wow, that's interesting! I have been browsing the whole R6RS > specification to see if Scheme could accept fractions as arguments, > but I couldn't come up with anything... See Guile docs; there may be installed in Info form

Re: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/30, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > it's actually possible to have > > \func #2/3 > > but you would loose the difference between 4/6 and 2/3 Wow, that's interesting! I have been browsing the whole R6RS specification to see if Scheme could accept fractions as arguments, but I coul

Re: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
2008/1/29, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Oh yes! as a matter of fact, the whole "\times 2/3" is included in my > \t variable. > > Maybe the whole point is that users cannot define their own alias > here. Would it be consistent to make it possible, by removing the > hardcoded \times key

Re: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/29, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The problem is (as was discussed in that thread that we are repeating > more and > more of here) that you cannot create any such alias, at least not if you > want to > keep the syntax 2/3. You can certainly make an alias with syntax > \t #2 #3 {musi

Re: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Valentin Villenave wrote: 2008/1/28, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... hmm, I admit that it's annoying that your right hand needs to hit the \ and then m keys; \tuplet has the advantage of using the left hand for the t... Definitely. A year ago, I proposed to use the simple,

Re: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/1/28, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ... hmm, I admit that it's annoying that your right hand needs to > hit the \ and then m keys; \tuplet has the advantage of using the > left hand for the t... Definitely. A year ago, I proposed to use the simple, minimalistic \t keyword that is b

Re: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-28 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op maandag 28 januari 2008, schreef Trevor Daniels: > I too oppose this as a mandatory change, and the > creation of an alias.  \times does exactly what > the word 'times' implies and not what 'tuplet' > would imply.  The change would lead to still greater > confusion, with new users writing the fr

Re: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-28 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:36:20 - "Trevor Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I too oppose this as a mandatory change, and the > creation of an alias. \times does exactly what > the word 'times' implies and not what 'tuplet' > would imply. The change would lead to still greater > confusion,

RE: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-28 Thread Trevor Daniels
Bryan Stanbridge wote on 27 January 2008 21:38 > > John Mandereau wrote: > > There has already been a *huge* thread on the > -user list about this, and > > the conclusion was that the only realistic > change we could do was > > renaming \times to \tuplet, and nothing else; > the point of my re

Re: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn)

2008-01-27 Thread Bryan Stanbridge
John Mandereau wrote: There has already been a *huge* thread on the -user list about this, and the conclusion was that the only realistic change we could do was renaming \times to \tuplet, and nothing else; the point of my remark in the bug tracker was to ask developers' opinion about actually do