Issue 945 in lilypond: warning about \version for short snippets

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Status: Accepted
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Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Low

New issue 945 by percival.music.ca: warning about \version for short  
snippets
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=945

Don't discuss this issue unless you're seriously willing to work on it --
putting patches, organising discussion on -devel, etc.


Currently we show a warning if there's no \version statement.  This is teh
suck for the tutorial -- do we explain that people need to write
  \version "2.12.0"
before they've even learned what
  { c'4 }
means, or do we let their first view of lilypond be a warning?

I see a few options:
1.  Suck it up and explain \version as the first thing.
2.  Suck it up and tell newbies to ignore the warning.  (IMO, that's even
worse, since it trains them to ignore warnings)
3.  Do something intelligent in lilypond, like only warning about \version
if the input file is more than 10 lines long.

I prefer #3, of course.


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