Re: Issue 2216 in lilypond: AU: Document all options for lilypond -dhelp

[James]

Ian

On 19 March 2012 13:45, Ian Hulin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> On 19/03/12 11:31, address@hidden wrote:
>>
>> Comment #4 on issue 2216 by address@hidden: AU: Document all
>> options for lilypond -dhelp
>> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2216
>>
>> I noticed Graham has some commments. I'd also like to make sure
>> that my terminology is correct.
>>
>> I.e. the command
>>
>> -d[symbol]=[value] or --define-default=[symbol]=[value]
>>
>> is this a Scheme 'symbol' or something else?
>>
>> I'd just like it to use the correct terminology.
> 'symbol' ==  a command-line option name which is handled at scheme
> level rather from within the C++ code.
>
> Quite often they are boolean flags so they default to using #t or #f
> (because they are handled using scheme).  In other cases, like
> loglevel, they can use a whole set of string values.
>
> Maybe this?
> -d[option-name]=[value] or --define-default=[option-name]=[value]
>

Thanks, that helps a lot.

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James