Re: Documentation policy

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

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> From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Documentation policy
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>
>> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> If you look at
>>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/proportional-notation
>>> and the third example down, there's a single piece of music repeated
>>> three times but with different options on spacing.  I've noticed a
>>> number of similar examples.  I'd find it clearer if the music were
>>> assigned to a variable, and the examples used that variable - it would
>>> be absolutely clear what was changed between the examples.  It would
>>> also save a little space. Is there a reason for not doing this?
>>
>> Snippets are all compiled independently.
>
> I realise that.  The one I referred to is attached - as you'll see,
> the music
>
>      c'2
>      c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16
>      \tuplet 5/4 {
>        c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16
>
> is repeated 3 times in the single snippet.

Well, I see nothing wrong with using a music variable here.  We are
rather careful in the tutorial not to introduce material before it has
been explained, but I think that we don't have similarly stringent
linearity rules for the NR.

-- 
David Kastrup