Re: A few remarks concerning \relative

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 01:23:19AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> 
>> It's tutorial-speak at its best.  I don't understand either your
>> unhappiness nor your displeasure.
>
> The tutorial is not the place for musings or cleverness.  The goal is
> to get people started writing music with the minimum amount of fuss.

I don't think that the minimum amount of fun and curiosity is going to
help the motivation.

> This tip should go in @ref{Suggestions for writing files}, and of
> course in the Notation reference.  If you really think it should be
> earlier, we could discuss a rewrite of Learning 2.4.3 Absolute note
> names, to be more general ("alterate note entry"?  "relative and
> absolute modes revisised"?) and adding this tip.  But I would like to
> discuss that patch on Rietveld before it's pushed.

I am not going to put up a patch on Rietveld and am not writing any more
documentation for this.  I don't have the resources to put up a fight
for user appeal.  It is enough of a chore to make Lilypond useful for
myself.  I won't fight an upstream battle for others.

I don't understand your attitude and argument in this respect, and I
don't even want to understand it.

-- 
David Kastrup