Op zondag 27-09-2009 om 14:22 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Jonathan Wilkes:
Hi Jonathan, > Not too long ago, I gave my opinion that "No fiddling" should be > changed to "less fiddling" for the new website. > After trying to do a quick exercise with a Schumann score, which I > posted here concerning a slur tweak after a line break, I don't think the > "less fiddling" claim is valid, either. You seem to miss the point of the "no fiddling" remark. As an aside: this is exactly why I do not like the newly fumbled "less fiddling", it turns people's heads into the direction of fiddling. People have come to think fiddling is normal and required. More often than not it isn't. We do not want less fiddling, we want bug reports and no fiddling. Okay... The idea of LilyPond is that the output should be beautiful without fiddling. While this may not have been achieved yet for some pieces of music, it may be true next year. We found that if you wanted beautifully engraved music, you would need to move almost every freaking note, beam, barline, slur, accidental and lyric when using an expensive, popular GUI program. It may be that some tweaks, esp. where you need visible feedback take more time to do in LilyPond than they do in a GUI program. I don't think we particularly care about this. The upside here is that any tweaks you do need, can be quite easily improved incrementally, saved for a next time, discussed on a mailing list -- while mouse movements cannot. If you want to help, please post a minimal snippet with the slur or grace note that you do not like to the bug-lilypond list. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter AvatarĀ®: http://AvatarAcademy.nl | http://lilypond.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user