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Re: Doc: Some miscellaneous suggestions from Peter Toye (issue 579280043


From: michael . kaeppler
Subject: Re: Doc: Some miscellaneous suggestions from Peter Toye (issue 579280043 by address@hidden)
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:48:29 -0800

On 2020/02/05 14:51:03, lemzwerg wrote:
> A nit.
> 
>
https://codereview.appspot.com/579280043/diff/579290043/Documentation/notation/input.itely
> File Documentation/notation/input.itely (right):
> 
>
https://codereview.appspot.com/579280043/diff/579290043/Documentation/notation/input.itely#newcode464
> Documentation/notation/input.itely:464: escaped with backslashes.
> This is confusing.  'Alphabetic characters' and 'non-ASCII characters'
are not
> different sets but are overlapping.  What about
> 
>   The name of a variable should not contain (ASCII) numbers,
>   underscores, dashes, or space characters.  All other
>   characters Unicode provides are allowed, for example Latin,
>   Greek, or Chinese.  In other words, variable names like
>   @code{HornIII} or @code{αβγXII} work.
> 
>   Any combination of characters is allowed if the variable name
>   is enclosed in double quotation marks.  In this case
>   backslashes and double quotation marks need to be escaped with
>   backslashes (not that you actually should use them).
>   Examples: @code{"foo bar"}, @code{"a-b-c"}, @code{"Horn 3"}.

Thank you, Werner!
I tried to combine your suggestions with Peter's remarks in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2020-02/msg00265.html

https://codereview.appspot.com/579280043/



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