Re: \spacingTweaks disappears from manuals

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 06/06/2022 à 19:07, Knute Snortum a écrit :
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 9:37 AM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
>
> > The commit message might not have been clear enough. \spacingTweaks
> > was not just unused; I don't remove functions not used in LilyPond
> > itself for the sake of removing them (I add tests for them instead).
> > \spacingTweaks was just *broken*: there was no way it could work.
> Understood.  I didn't think you would remove a function willy nilly.
>
> > > This is fine, except it *was* documented in v2.22
> > > through v2.20 at least.  My questions are:
> >
> > Where do you see that?
> (https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/available-music-functions)
> (https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/lilypond-command-index)
> (https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/lilypond-index)



Ah, yes, there is autogenerated documentation listing available music
functions. Is anyone using that to find functions, though? I always
thought you'd use it for remembering what a particular function does,
but not to discover the available possibilities since the list is large.



> > > * should there be a mention on the Changes manual page that it's gone?
> > Possibly. I didn't think anybody would notice given it had no effect before.
> It's quite possible it hasn't been used.  I only came across it when I
> was updating the Frescobaldi syntax highlighting program.  I'm
> thinking "do nothing" is a fine option at this point.


I just did some tests and I am not seeing an effect of
\spacingTweaks in a version as early as 2.8 (the earliest
I could download from lilypond.org). LilyPond 2.8 is from
2006. Thus, I think it's fine as well. Thanks for raising it
nevertheless -- it's good to have users reporting potential
oversights.

Best,
Jean