RE: that acciaccatura issue

[Mark Stephen Mrotek]

Werner,

Thank you for your input into this matter.
Some comments amaze me: 
        "pretending to be a novice"
        "you should already know"
        "sounds like a lame excuse"
        "it isn't rocket science"

Even my parents were not so patronizing!

Mark

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> I am amazed/surprised/confounded on the amount of time and effort that 
> has been expended on a justification of the "minimal"
> requirement what could have been spent on just viewing (via 
> Frescobaldi not a PDF) the "errors" in my code.  (Wow that was a run 
> on!).

Mark,


we try to *educate* you!  I don't understand why you pretend being a novice.
You are staying long enough on this mailing list that you actually should
already know how to create a minimum example just by reading other e-mails.

For your given example it might have been possible by experts to correctly
deduce that the issue at hand was the time signature and not the grace note.
But what about the next example?  And the next after the next one?

> How then can/should I be castigated for my inability?

Sorry to say, but this sounds like a lame excuse for not trying yourself to
reduce the input data.  Leaving out a line here and there isn't rocket
science!  I have to do *exactly* the same to find out potential bugs and/or
problems, and it costs me a non-trivial amount of time to do the reduction
until I get a minimum (or small) example.

> May I suggest that if my, or any other beginners, snippet is not 
> minimal enough for any reader, that the reader just close out the 
> e-mail?  Or a group of competent coders could take it upon themselves 
> to attend to the particular needs of the beginner.

Again: you do not longer count as a beginner, at least for me, so please do
us a favour in reducing future examples as much as you can.
In case you are stuck with a further reduction, people on this list will
certainly assist you.


    Werner