Re: Has the default changed for Staff.automaticMelismata?

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Han-Wen" == Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:

    Han-Wen> I think most of the sources will not break, since they either 
don't use
    Han-Wen> aM, or don't have melismata. FWIW, I couldn't find any scores on
    Han-Wen> mutopia that rely on aM being off by default. 

I agree that anything with no melismata will not break.  Anything with
no slurs (which is the majority of my old stuff) will also not break.

However, I think most things with both slurs and melismata will break,
in ways that will be difficult for many users to figure out.  I
figured it out pretty fast because I had used the property setting
before, but I found the name of the property I vaguely remembered
setting by grepping through .ly files -- I tried and failed to find it
from the index of the manual.

I would say that if we can't figure out how to get convert-ly to deal
with the change, we shouldn't make it.  I don't personally see why
true is The Right Thing; it seems to me that false is a more natural
default, and true is a sophistication to be learned later.  

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