Re: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
> Can be typed pretty rapidly too: hold down right shift with your little > finger and <> fall under the index and middle fingers. ..not everyone uses us keyboard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

RE: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Nick Payne
Why not use an empty pair of braces, which at the moment are just ignored by the parser, to dignify chord repetition: <> gives 3<> gives c <> gives c - ie <> ignored as now if preceding element is not a chord Can be typed pretty rapidly too: hold down right shift with your little fing

Re: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Marc Hohl
Anthony W. Youngman schrieb: In message <49da120a.7090...@hohlart.de>, Marc Hohl writes 1) personally, I would use the "%", but this is the comment sign and can't be used. (perhaps this would be even possible, but ... NO!) Oh my gosh, please, NOOO As Han-Wen has said, parsing is impor

Re: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <49da120a.7090...@hohlart.de>, Marc Hohl writes 1) personally, I would use the "%", but this is the comment sign and can't be used. (perhaps this would be even possible, but ... NO!) Oh my gosh, please, NOOO As Han-Wen has said, parsing is important. In another life I work w

Re: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
I would avoid getting in this discussion before the feature is complete. Just call it \r (using an identifier or keyword), and see how it works in practice. When it is debugged, think of a character. The advantage of not using a letter a-z is that there are no backward compat problems with sourc

Re: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Marc Hohl
Despite the fact that it would cause massive problems in parsing, a line like c4 4 4 4 is not quite readable for me. As lilypond is THE tool for typesetting beautiful scores, the source file should reflect the beauty. So I should be able to grasp the score at first sight, and in my opinion,

Re: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >> as long as I have anything to do with LilyPond, I will veto changes >> like this that introduce inconsistent whitespace handling in the >> syntax. > > What was the problem with this again?  It is not so much inconsistent > whitepace, it's

significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op zondag 05-04-2009 om 18:13 uur [tijdzone -0300], schreef Han-Wen Nienhuys: > as long as I have anything to do with LilyPond, I will veto changes > like this that introduce inconsistent whitespace handling in the > syntax. What was the problem with this again? It is not so much inconsistent wh