Re: Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-08 Thread Patrick Horgan
Graham Percival wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:40:48 -0700 Patrick Horgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...muchly stuff elided... Thanks, Graham, I laughed out loud in Pizza My Heart reading this until people were staring at me in envy! Patrick ___

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Well, at least my personal source of knowledge and wisdom says so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX LaTeX (pronounced /ˈleɪtɛx/ or /ˈleɪtɛk/) is a document markup language and document preparation system This is a good description click on document preparation system: it redirects to

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:46:45 +0200 Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/5 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you honestly consider LaTeX to be a word processor? Well, at least my personal source of knowledge and wisdom says so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX Well,

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/6 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, your personal source of knowledge and wisdom sucks. Matter of generation: not everybody was lucky enough to live at the glorious era of usenet, you know :-) I recommend removing \markuplines from the @predef, and change the final paragraph to

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-06 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:40:48 -0700 Patrick Horgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that I've learned the most from the online conversations between Graham and Valentin, and as a tribute to them, would like to give what to some may seem an overly obvious interpretation of the undercurrents in

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-06 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 10/6/08 10:12 AM, Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:40:48 -0700 Patrick Horgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Percival wrote:On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:44:27 +0200 Also, what do you mean by using a specific syntax? (same paragraph) Obviously a syntax

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:44:27 +0200 Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/3 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also consider whether you should use system instead of line. Well, in this particular case the use of line was implied by line break. I could change this into system

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:44:27 +0200 Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/3 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also consider whether you should use system instead of line. Well, in this particular case the use of line was implied by line break. I could change this into system

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/3 Steven Padalino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There seems to be a new notation for text that I can't find mention of anywhere in the docs yet. ^ places text above the staff, _ places it below the staff. Now there's -. What does that do? Based on the examples given it looks like it also

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-03 Thread Jonathan Kulp
This is really good, Valentin! The examples are very clear and easy to understand. And although I've followed the thread on documentation design, this was the first significant time I'd spent looking at docs in the new design. It looks really nice. Thanks for all the work on design, guys!

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-03 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:51:36 +0200 Valentin Villenave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to declare that I officially don't feel competetent enough to find anything more on my own to improve the 1.8 section of the Notation Reference, aka Text. Be afraid. Be very afraid. :) So, I definitely

Re: Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-03 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/10/3 Graham Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Be afraid. Be very afraid. :) I am. Why do you think it took me eight months to complete this section? :-) - inspirational headword only uses \italics. Boring. (yeah, I know it fits the theme of Beethoven stuff, but since NR 2 doesn't always

Notation Reference 1.8 Text : ready for review

2008-10-02 Thread Valentin Villenave
Greetings everybody, after six months of hard work (and a significant hair loss as far as Graham is concerned :-) I'd like to declare that I officially don't feel competetent enough to find anything more on my own to improve the 1.8 section of the Notation Reference, aka Text. (and, yes, the