Re: GDP predefined commands

2007-11-08 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Graham Percival wrote: However, that's one thing that I'm never going to tackle. If anybody wants to attempt it, great! But the IR is officially out of bounds of GDP. Perhaps you can just send out a wish list, hoping that some Scheme hacker finds it an interesting pr

Re: GDP predefined commands

2007-11-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: True. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that I have no clue how the IR is constructed -- if I _did_ understand it, we could probably make a few changes that would make the whole thing considerably easier to read. However, that's one thing that I'm never going t

Re: GDP predefined commands

2007-11-08 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Graham Percival wrote: NR is a reference to look stuff up; LM is for learning the material in the first place. Agreed! However, what's special with LilyPond is that it's three levels, not two. Often for me, the IR is the real reference to look stuff up. The division betw

Re: GDP predefined commands

2007-11-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Graham Percival wrote: Yes, with one quirk: the LM/NR division. The current "changing defaults" doesn't make anybody happy. It's too verbose for programmers (or people who are already familiar with it, but can't remember certain details), but much too short for first-time readers. So we'r

RE: GDP predefined commands (was: text first draft)

2007-11-08 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote on 08 November 2007 12:26 > > Trevor Daniels wrote: > >> Actually, \fatText _is_ simply an arcane override > >> > -- but one which the > >> > developers thought was so common that they > >> > included a predefined > >> > variable. > > > > The difference exactly. Tha

Re: GDP predefined commands

2007-11-08 Thread Graham Percival
Mats Bengtsson wrote: Isn't the main points of this discussion that: - Predefined commands like \fatText should be described in the NR. Even if the implementation of it might change over the years, the semantics will remain the same. Yes. "\fatText: pushes the next note to the right to allow

Re: GDP predefined commands

2007-11-08 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Isn't the main points of this discussion that: - Predefined commands like \fatText should be described in the NR. Even if the implementation of it might change over the years, the semantics will remain the same. - Somewhere in the NR, it should be described how an advanced user can find the e

GDP predefined commands (was: text first draft)

2007-11-08 Thread Graham Percival
Trevor Daniels wrote: Actually, \fatText _is_ simply an arcane override > -- but one which the > developers thought was so common that they > included a predefined > variable. The difference exactly. That's why I think this predefined variable should be in the main text. No, absolutel

Re: GDP: "Predefined commands" vs. "commonly teaked properties"

2007-09-22 Thread Valentin Villenave
2007/9/22, Trevor Bača <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 9/21/07, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Should we keep @refcommands independent from @commonprop ? For example, > > look at Tuplets. Do you like it as it is, or should we move > > > > \tupletUp \tupletDown etc > > > > inside the "Co

Re: GDP: "Predefined commands" vs. "commonly teaked properties"

2007-09-22 Thread Trevor Bača
On 9/21/07, Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should we keep @refcommands independent from @commonprop ? For example, > look at Tuplets. Do you like it as it is, or should we move > > \tupletUp \tupletDown etc > > inside the "Commonly tweaked properties" ? I vote for combine. --

GDP: "Predefined commands" vs. "commonly teaked properties"

2007-09-21 Thread Graham Percival
Should we keep @refcommands independent from @commonprop ? For example, look at Tuplets. Do you like it as it is, or should we move \tupletUp \tupletDown etc inside the "Commonly tweaked properties" ? Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing li