Re: Issue 1294 - Lyric ties

[Patrick McCarty]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> We have two ways of making it not a Critical issue:
> 1) make the output the same.  If that means fiddling with the
> release-2.14 branch of GUB, fine.  If that means changing stuff in
> lilypond git, fine.  If that means six weeks of making GUB master
> compile, the testing, then fixing bugs, then more testing, then
> more fixing bugs, then extra patches against ghostscript, then
> more testing, then finally merging GUB master to release-2.14 and
> then *not*. *touching*. *the*. *build*. *system*., then fine.
>
> 2) metaphorically look our users in the eye and tell them that we
> no longer support that feature.  This means adding the following
> line to Documentation/changes.tely:
> address@hidden Lyric ties are no longer supported.
>
> I'll give a LGTM to any such patch.  Other developers --
> particularly anybody who writes vocal music -- may disagree, and
> I'm not going to quibble to any such disagreement.
>
>
> But as far as releases go, that's the story.

It wasn't my intent to be controversial with my assessment of the
situation.  Sorry.  I'll work on the issue, and we'll fix this for
2.14.

Thanks,
Patrick