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Re: OT: pagenumber
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David Kastrup |
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Re: OT: pagenumber |
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Sun, 06 Mar 2016 17:21:42 +0100 |
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Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
> On 04.03.2016 22:53, Blöchl Bernhard wrote:
>
>> A much better solution might be (just as a question/recommendation)
>> not to strain a simple minded user like me with such subtleties.
>
> This is not a ‘subtlety’ but a fundamental design principle; as a
> matter of fact, one cannot make thorough use of LilyPond without
> escaped Scheme expressions. And IMO it’s better to give an honest and
> clear explanation here, to avoid later confusion.
If we can avoid the confusion by other means at reasonable cost
(explaining ##f every time it is used would not be reasonable), nothing
wrong with redundancy.
However, all suggestions take effort of various kinds to implement. The
more work someone hoping to see a change invests into outlining this
change (with the optimum being a submitted patch&issue), the better is
the probability that it will be picked up and implemented according to
his plan.
Finding all occurences and proposing exact text replacements would
already be a big help since that "only" requires use of editor and other
tools for a developer rather than his own creativity.
The more vague a proposal is, the less probable it is that someone will
actually act on it. Of course, the more work one invests, the more
frustrating it might be when _still_ nobody acts on it. While there are
no guarantees, I continue being impressed at the amount of developers
who actually do pick up documentation suggestions and create patches for
them.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: OT: pagenumber, (continued)
- Re: OT: pagenumber, Blöchl Bernhard, 2016/03/05
- Re: OT: pagenumber, Andrew Bernard, 2016/03/05
- Use "#f" instead of "false" in manuals (was: OT: pagenumber), Urs Liska, 2016/03/05
- Re: Use "#f" instead of "false" in manuals, BB, 2016/03/05
- Re: Use "#f" instead of "false" in manuals (was: OT: pagenumber), Palmer Ralph, 2016/03/11
- Re: Use "#f" instead of "false" in manuals, BB, 2016/03/11
- Re: OT: pagenumber, David Kastrup, 2016/03/05
- Re: OT: pagenumber, Thomas Morley, 2016/03/05
- Re: OT: pagenumber, David Kastrup, 2016/03/05
- Re: OT: pagenumber, Simon Albrecht, 2016/03/06
- Re: OT: pagenumber,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: OT: pagenumber, Andrew Bernard, 2016/03/04
- Re: OT: pagenumber, Noeck, 2016/03/05
- Re: generating a few isolated notes, tisimst, 2016/03/10
- Re: generating a few isolated notes, tisimst, 2016/03/10