Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

[Francisco Vila]

2012/11/12 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>>  The fundamental question for an user (and he thinks it is for all new
>>  users, too) was to realize that lilypond is a programming
>>  language. Every syntax is more or less complex, and it would be
>>  useless to question it without a big amount of judgement elements.
>
> But LilyPond should rather be a music description language.

I think it is intended to mean more like "a language" as opposed to
everything else which is not "a language"

>> 2 Something especially difficult or hard to read or to write?
>>
>>  Putting several voices together looks scary to use.
>
> In what respect "putting several voices together"?

Multi-voice staves, I think. Polyphony in the lilypond sense of the word.

>>  It would be fine to specify properties as a series of dot-separated
>>  list of symbols.
>
> I guess we are ahead on this one.

Yes, this is great.

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