Re: Document changing default rest position in NR 1.2.2

[Trevor Daniels]

Arle, you wrote Thursday, December 20, 2012 9:58 AM

> Thanks for letting me know. If that is the process, then probably 
> the documentation on how to make "small additions" itself needs 
> to be updated to clarify what gets submitted where, since I was 
> trying to follow the guidelines here:
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/contributor/documentation-suggestions

That's a valid point.  The LSR ought to be mentioned here.

> With regard to the location, I proposed it for that section to keep it 
> parallel with the content in 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/writing-rests#index-positioning-multi_002dmeasure-rests
>  
> which already describes the essentially identical override technique 
> for full-measure rests. 

Yes, that section was originally extracted from the LSR 
(see http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=591
although I see it was later extended without being updated in 
the LSR) using exactly the method I described:

> Thanks for the suggestion, Arle.  The correct way to add this to
> the documentation is to submit your example, with appropriate
> explanatory text, to the LSR, tagging it for docs, rhythms and
> tweaks and overrides.  This is the way users can add material to
> the documentation - it will then appear automatically in the
> Snippets list.
> 
> Once that is done, the doc writers can easily add it to the
> selected snippets in the position you suggest.  Overrides such
> as the one you suggest are (with very few exceptions) not 
> included in the main text of Chapter 1 of the Notation Reference;
> there would simply be far too many equally useful candidates.
> 
Trevor