Re: Clef change

[Erik Sandberg]

On Monday 26 April 2004 07.43, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > It would be great if you can store JPG images also which show the
> > > problem!
> >
> > I use .png instead.
>
> Yes, of course.  A typo of mine.
>
> > I use the convention that if I submit something as "clef-change.ly",
> > I upload clef-change.png demonstrating the problem, if appropriate.
>
> Thanks, I got them.  I ask for yet another refinement: Do a zoom at
> the problematic spot and crop the image around the buggy detail
> (without using anti-aliasing to have the images as small as possible).

So far I've just used plain lilypond --png for simplicity. I'll do more 
whenever anything seems unclear. I am minimalistic by nature; I don't enjoy 
putting effort in producing aesthetically correct bug reports if it isn't 
necessary. To me it's just an illustration to help pointing out what's wrong.

So: If it is a layout bug, and it is not immediately 100% clear from lilypond 
--png + texidoc what the problem is, then I'll do the work of starting gimp; 
and I'll probably draw a few red rings & arrows, and crop the image. I'll 
skip this step if it is too obvious (such as misplaced-octaviation or 
piano-repeat), but i'll do the work in cases such as 
grace-accidental-spacing.

And is space really an issue? A typical bugreport PNG is 5K, which should take 
about 1 second to download over a modem; and typically <5 people will 
download it by modem. And the space consumption is not so crucial really; 
given that one gigabyte costs less than 1 euro these days (so it takes about 
2000 bugreports to reach the cost of 1 cent).

> Is `\version x.x.x.' precise enough?  Be prepared that I use the date
> of the ChangeLog file as the time stamp for a bug report...

Most bugs I've added have existed in official releases as well, so \version 
has been enough. But you're right, there should be a mechanism to be more 
specific than that.

I'd suggest to add timestamp = "..." in \header, when needed.

BTW, is there a  preferred date format & how do you extract that easily with 
CVS?

Erik