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Re: mdash in markup?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: mdash in markup? |
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Sun, 05 May 2013 10:30:57 +0200 |
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James Harkins < address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> > I see it now. It wasn't obvious to me that the special character
>> > aliases wouldn't work without enabling them in the paper block.
>>
>> A list of ASCII aliases for special characters can be included:
>>
>> \paper {
>> #(include-special-characters)
>> }
>> [...]
>>
>> It does not get much more obvious than that.
>
> It can.
>
> This bugs me because a/ I tend to read text and skim examples
You stop reading text in mid-sentence because it contains code?
> and (more importantly) b/ it's imprecise. Here, I was left to guess
> about the criticality of include-special- characters, and I guessed
> wrong.
Didn't you admit not even reading that sentence? It does not state "A
list of ASCII aliases _is_ included" but rather "it _can_ be included".
> My point is, why should I have had to guess in the first place?
More like "why should you have to read in the first place".
> Lilypond's documentation is generally better than that. But here is a
> case where a feature is entirely inactive without a statement,
"A list of ASCII aliases for special characters can be included:"
And the feature _has_ to be inactive without a statement since it messes
with string interpretation. Personally, I don't particularly like this
sort of global interface causing potential trouble in unrelated areas
that work on their own.
But there is no question that with the given interface, this feature
_must_ default to being off.
--
David Kastrup
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