Re: manual style

[Erik Sandberg]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 02.21, Graham Percival wrote:
> - Current English academic[1] writing style is to use the feminine
> pronoun as a gender-neutral pronoun.  "A composer might want to do foo,
> so she should write bar in her LilyPond score".  Yes, in the past[2]
> English used the male pronoun for non-gender specific texts (ie replace
> "she" with "he" and "her" with "his" in the above example).  I've
> changed such occurrences in the manual to reflect this[3].
>
> If you're talking about a specific person (Chopin, Han-Wen, etc) then
> you still use the appropriate pronoun.

And the gender of lilypond is of course female, but that was maybe too obvious 
to mention.

Erik