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Re: Slurs do not work with Larsen articulations


From: Robert Hickman
Subject: Re: Slurs do not work with Larsen articulations
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:58:57 +0100

On 24 April 2018 at 16:18, Karlin High <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Robert Hickman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The only way to create good documentation is to listen to your users
>> problems and progressively make improvements.
>
> Yes, exactly! The LilyPond community has a process for this.
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/documentation-suggestions>
>
> However, in any software development community, some suggestions are
> more likely to be accepted than others. For example, if I went to a
> forum for a C-family language and said "This whole business of ending
> each line with a semicolon is just stupid; you need to change that!"
> what response would I get? Swift and overwhelmingly negative, right?
> That language element was settled years ago, and my opinions on it are
> irrelevant. Whatever help I would get from the C-people, getting rid
> of the semicolons would not be part of it.
> --

This is ******NOT****** the point I am making, I am saying that the
existing documentation should be improved to clearly explain the
syntax and I have already given an example of how that can be done.



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