Re: Doc: Extending: "sole ‘real’ argument" should be simply "argument"

[James Lowe]

On 12/03/16 19:57, Mark D. Blackwell wrote:
> The Extending LilyPond manual, in section 1.3.4:
>
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/extending/adding-articulation-to-notes-_0028example_0029
>
> currently states:
>
> "Now we transform the add-accent function into a music function (a
> matter of some syntactic sugar and a declaration of the type of its
> sole ‘real’ argument).
>
>      addAccent = #(define-music-function (note-event)
>                                           (ly:music?)"
>
> Now, the two words, "sole ‘real’" are mysterious and confusing, since
> "note-event" is the only argument.
>
> Formerly, those words referred to the fact that (in version 2.18) the
> supplied arguments "parser" and "location" conveyed no information.
> Compare version 2.18:
>
> "Now we transform the add-accent function into a music function (a
> matter of some syntactic sugar and a declaration of the type of its
> sole ‘real’ argument).
>
>      addAccent = #(define-music-function (parser location note-event)
>                                           (ly:music?)"
>
> So the present text should be changed to:
>
> "Now we transform the add-accent function into a music function (a
> matter of some syntactic sugar and a declaration of the type of its
> argument).
>
>      addAccent = #(define-music-function (note-event)
>                                           (ly:music?)"

Thank you Mark.

This has been added as

https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4796/

--
James

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