Re: A few remarks concerning \relative

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi David (and Graham too),

2011/9/13 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> 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.

Hmm.  It would be a pity if such a nice discovery would get lost.
Would you like me to put a patch about this for review?

thanks,
Janek