Re: Please document ly:stencil-scale (from issue 888)

[Colin Campbell]

On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 23:48 +0000, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 12:18:19AM +0100, Xavier Scheuer wrote:
> > I'd suggest to add  ly:stencil-scale , erm, somewhere, maybe as a
> > snippet and the  \scale  command to be added to
> > NR A.8 Text markup commands > A.8.2 Align
> > near  \translate  and  \rotate .
> 
> At the moment, James is our only "full-time" documentation writer,
> and he's just getting ready to do some major editorial work.
> 
> Could you write about this?  You obviously know more about these
> commands than me (and James, by the way).  If you can write
> something vaguely understandable in English -- and the most
> important piece of almost all documentation is creating a good .ly
> example, and language shouldn't be a problem there -- then I can
> edit your doc patch for any minor English issues.
> 
> Make a list of the things that need to be done (the above
> paragraph is probably sufficient), and then start working on the
> item(s) that you know how to do.  Ignore ly:stencil-scale for now,
> and just work on adding \scale to text.itely.  Once _that_ patch
> has been edited, reviewed, and push, then we'll tackle the other
> stuff.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Graham

Things are loosening up a bit at the office for me, Graham.  I can
probably take on helping Xavier, certainly to the extent of taking his
ideas and tidying up from there.

Colin
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