Re: convert-ly problem

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Laura Conrad wrote:
>     HN> Discussing decisions beforehand is a nice democratic
>     HN> tradition, but Lily is not a democracy.
>
> Neither is it a one-man development team for a program used by only
> one person.

Well, whatever. Most changes are discussed with Jan, FWIW.
(and no, we don't have records of those, and you wouldn't be able to 
follow anyway)

>     HN> I have the impression that you think that I break stuff just
>     HN> for the pleasure of it. 
>
> No, but I think you make some changes without thinking about all the
> repercussions.  Some of the lousy old stuff you're throwing out might
> have been better if it had been discussed first, and I'm not sure you

> aren't implementing some lousy new stuff by just doing what occurs to
> you instead of discussing the real problems of real users.  

Well, we've come full circle now. Here you're saying that I have no clue 
of what I'm doing. How constructive.  I propose we end this discussion.

>     >> now I have to deal with "How
>     >> do I find the start of the note entry given that there's no longer a
>     >> '\notes' statement?"
>
>     HN> Frankly, I don't understand this remark. We just made the \notes mode 
>     HN> the default, so it is no longer necessary.
>
> But my scripts that add properties at the beginning of the notes use
> it to figure out where the notes begin.  
>
> No, I am not saying that you should make all my little scripts that
> you've never seen or used absolutely stable.  But you obviously didn't
> know that that change was going to impact real users when you made it.

Being a marker of whatever was something \notes was never intended for.
I do not (and will not) take this kind of "mis-use" as a guide for what 
to do or not do. I hope you understand that. If you want to have your 
own little markers, then do

  myOwnLittleMarker = { }

  ..

  \myOwnLittleMarker

then you can be sure that convert-ly leaves them alone.

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