Re: [PATCH] Doc: Further Reading for contemporary music

[Trevor Daniels]

Joseph Wakeling wrote Sunday, September 06, 2009 10:36 PM


> OK, I think I've cracked the problem of patches with Thunderbird. 
> The
> problem is that Thunderbird takes .patch files to be of mime-type
> text/x-diff.  Renaming the file to end in .txt changes its opinion 
> of
> the file type and allows the patch to be in base64 encoding.
>
> See: http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine

You're right.  This patch has Unix line endings and applies cleanly
as received.  Congratulations!

> This probably _is_ something which should be in the docs as it's 
> not
> something you would imagine would be a solution.

Could you let me have a suitable form of words?  I suggest a new
section in the CG - 1.3.3 Mailing a patch.

> As for the patch: this particular part of the contemporary music 
> docs
> ('Further reading') is something it would be great for other 
> people to
> pitch in on.  I've split the section into two: on the one hand 
> books and
> articles (including webpages) that are useful; on the other, 
> scores and
> musical extracts (again, possibly including online examples) that 
> are
> interesting with respect to learning about contemporary notation.

This information is undeniably useful, but I'm not sure it should
be part of the *LilyPond* Notation Reference.  We haven't included
external references like this elsewhere, yet the Stone and Read 
books
are very general and useful to all kinds of musical notation.

I'll wait for comment from Graham (and others) before pushing this.

Trevor