RE: Documentation - first impressions of the latest manual

[Anthony Youngman]

I hate to say it, but that comment sounds like "don't bother reporting
bugs unless you can fix them". That's not the Open Source way ...

And it looks like the problem is a lot deeper ...

Section 7.3.3 Hyphens and Extenders says that hyphens are controlled by
'minimum-distance' and 'minimum-length'. I'm guessing these are
reasonably new...

The reason I guess that is that I've taken a look at "collated files"
and it has a different example ... I thought "collated files" was
supposed to be a bunch of regression tests, and IT'S broken!

So I guess what I'm saying is "it looks like a new feature has busted a
load of regression tests and examples, and no-one has noticed". My
personal count is now "two distinct examples, one of them duplicated"
and there could quite well be more.

So I guess it's up to the lyrics guys to fix it, unless I try and put
hyphens into "Penn-syl-va-nia six five thou-sand" (which is actually how
it's normally written, I think) which will teach me how to fix the
problem.

There's also the little matter of the examples are supposed to be
"here's how to put a hyphen into lyrics text" and if I fix them, I'll be
turning them into examples of "here's how to force a hyphen into lyrics
when lily doesn't want to do it".

Cheers,
Wol

-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Percival [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 22 June 2006 06:35
To: Anthony Youngman
Cc: lily-devel
Subject: Re: Documentation - first impressions of the latest manual

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:08:21 +0100
"Anthony Youngman" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2.13 Printing Lyrics
> 
> Your hyphen example leads me to believe the text under the notes
> should read "Twin-kle twin-kle". There are no hyphens but it looks to
> me as if the whole point of the example is "how to put hyphens in".

Yes, there should be hyphens.  How about you fix it?  As I've said on
many occasions, I don't do lyrics.  You've got the source lilypond
code; tell me what to change it to.



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