Re: emproving Documentation about chordGlissando [WAS:consecutive chordGlissando]

[Colin Campbell]

On 11-04-25 11:33 AM, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> On 4/25/11 11:26 AM, "Federico Bruni"<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > Il giorno lun, 25/04/2011 alle 00.09 +0200, Federico Bruni ha scritto:
> > > Or should I rather edit
> > > Documentation/snippets/new/chord-glissando-in-tablature.ly?
> > I've changed my mind and I think that I should edit this file instead of
> > fretted-strings.itely.
> >
> > In the meanwhile I've realized that relative mode triggers another error
> > when chordGlissando moves down (from higher to lower pitches).  Pitches
> > are correct, but glissandi are in a mess.
> > See chord-glissando-down.ly attached.
> >
> > There's a workaround for this error?
> > I think that documentation should cover this issue as well (if there's
> > not a workaround, we might say that a chordGlissando "moving back"
> > should be entered in absolute mode?).
> It looks to me like the proper documentation is a warning that says
> "chordGlissando is unreliable in relative mode.  It is recommended to be
> always used in absolute mode."
>
> A bug report should be posted.
>
> We don't normally list bugs as warnings, so maybe once we list the bug we
> can't have the warning.
>
> It appears to me right now that chordGlissando is a sufficiently rough hack
> that it should probably be removed from the distribution and just be present
> in the LSR.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl

Should this be a new issue, Carl, or should I just add this message to 
issue 1617?

Colin Campbell

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