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Re: 3648 – revolution revisited


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: 3648 – revolution revisited
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:49:17 +0200
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Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> 2014-07-08 8:11 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>>
>> which has the side effect of working fine in \relative mode without the
>> need to employ make-relative.  You don't want spaces to have an effect
>> here.  It's not clear what they would even mean here when they did.
>>
>>> However, it would be great for consistency and automatisation of
>>> writing music if it could work. Which would mean to forbid any spaces
>>> or line breaks between pitch and duration, if they belong to the same
>>> note, and interpret them as two notes if there is any space or line
>>> break inbetween.
>>> I don’t see any problem in that with normal input, whereas in other
>>> cases like music functions the space might be necessary.
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> We don't want space to be significant between separate syntactical
>> entities.  Particularly not for automatisation of writing music which
>> becomes awfully tricky if you have to keep track of writing spaces.
>
> I fully second David here. There was a huge discussion about this
> feature and it wouldn't get accepted if c 2 was interpreted
> differently than c2, it would be too tricky.  Imagine all the new
> users getting completely confused.

Not to mention all the old users.

-- 
David Kastrup



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