Re: other manual style issues

[Graham Percival]

On 14-Sep-04, at 1:52 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> When writing scientific papers with math formulas in them, I often
> use a comma before the formula. If you think of the figure as an
> inserted clarification in the sentence, it makes sense to use
> a comma. (Of course, then you would like a comma also after the figure.
> Again, with math formulas, it's common to end the formula with a comma
> or a period - something you unfortunately cannot do with the figures.)

I agree that we should have a comma (or occasionally a period) before
a figure.  But the current LilyPond style guidelines call for no 
punctuation
between the text and an example.

Would anybody (*cough* Han-Wen *cough* :)  object if I changed this
guideline to allow for some punctuation?  I don't think I'd use a colon;
it would be either commas or periods.  And in some cases I might not
use any punctuation.  But in most cases I'd prefer to include a comma.


This would be a post-3.0 change, so we don't need to fight about it
right now.

Cheers,
- Graham