Re: Doc: improve documentation of Bézier curves (2858) (issue 6561064)

2012-10-07 Thread tdanielsmusic
On 2012/10/07 03:14:31, david.nalesnik wrote: This looks great to me. I like the reordering, and I think the explanations are very clear. I've tweaked the curves a little in the examples (do what you like with my suggestions!), Thanks. I've adopted them, but with just a little further

Re: unofficial GOP proposal organization of GLISS discussions

2012-10-07 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 02:43:48PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Am 05.10.2012 18:34, schrieb Janek Warchoł: i find it hard to keep up with our GLISS discussions. I've also heard that the amount of

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submittingsimple doc patches

2012-10-07 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: James pkx1...@gmail.com; lilypond-devel@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for

Re: unofficial GOP proposal organization of GLISS discussions

2012-10-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, some clarification: Most importantly, i'm not saying that we should *force* separating discussions about problems from discussions about solutions. What i mean is to have a different approach than we had till now. An example of what i consider an ineffective way of discussing: personA:

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-07 Thread David Kastrup
Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net writes: We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.4. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.16 version. I got a bikeshed to pluck here,

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:13 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net writes: We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.4. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 2

2012-10-07 Thread Ian Hulin
Hi Keith, Thanks for doing some prototyping. On 07/10/12 00:24, Keith OHara wrote: Ian Hulin ian at hulin.org.uk writes: There will be new commands to supplement (or eventually replace) the current \times command. 1. \tuplet n/m {music expression} This should be relatively easy to

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-07 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com wrote: it is strongly recommended that only developers use this release. Everyone else should use stable 2.16 version. The wording I've used for the upcoming LilyPond Report is: this version is intended for testing purposes

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-07 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:13 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net writes: We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.4. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly recommended

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-07 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org To: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 12:02 PM Subject: Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:13 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Phil

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-07 Thread David Kastrup
Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: it is strongly recommended that only experienced users try working with this release. Everyone else is encouraged to use the stable 2.16 version instead. Something like that. This version has not had extensive testing, and so only users who are

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-07 Thread Stefaan Himpe
Hi there, I got a bikeshed to pluck here, namely normal users. Can we find a different wording for that? I have no good idea right now, but I find that my dislike for this wording does not improve. Just use the word users. Devs know they have other options. Best regards, Stefaan.

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-07 Thread David Kastrup
Stefaan Himpe stefaan.hi...@gmail.com writes: Hi there, I got a bikeshed to pluck here, namely normal users. Can we find a different wording for that? I have no good idea right now, but I find that my dislike for this wording does not improve. Just use the word users. Devs know they have

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-07 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 12:22 PM Subject: Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: it is strongly recommended that only experienced

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Stefaan Himpe stefaan.hi...@gmail.com wrote: I got a bikeshed to pluck here, namely normal users. Can we find a different wording for that? I have no good idea right now, but I find that my dislike for this wording does not improve. Just use the word users.

Re: LilyPond 2.17.4 released

2012-10-07 Thread Stefaan Himpe
Users should not be using this release? No, I don't want to employ a simple descriptive term like user as a caste label. That seems even worse than normal users. In this context I agree it doesn't sound good. I'd reformulate the sentence to mention that this specific release is suitable

[proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-07 Thread Ian Hulin
Thanks to everyone for their feedback so far. Here is Version 3 of the proposal. There will be new commands to supplement (or eventually replace) the current \times command. 1. \tuplet n/m {music expression} % does what \times does, but not so easily confused with \time % command. 2. \triplet

[Parser] Lookahead in music function arguments

2012-10-07 Thread David Kastrup
Hi, I am trying to get into somewhat consistent music function behavior. Some argument types for music functions inherently require lookahead: simple music expressions like c4 (since you can still add -\accent at will), symbol chains (like Bottom as it may be followed by . Accidental), durations

Re: User-poll about lily-syntax: results - [Was: [GLISS] basics]

2012-10-07 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 06.10.2012 22:27, schrieb Thomas Morley: Hi, attached are the alphabetic sorted complains/suggestions about LilyPond-syntax from german users. Hi Harm, thanks for your work – looks like you spent quite a lot of time collecting *and* presenting these issues! It looks like some issues

Re: bar-line interface part 2/2: New bar line definition standard (issue 6498052)

2012-10-07 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 05.10.2012 21:42, schrieb Thomas Morley: 2012/10/5 janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: Marc wrote: (define-bar-line ...) or \defineBarLine allows for new definitions. These functions have four arguments, namely the bar line itself, the bar line used at the end of line, the bar line used at the begin

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 2

2012-10-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:33:18 +0200 From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org To: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 2 Message-ID: 87obkfsb69@fencepost.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes:   I haven't seen

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submittingsimple doc patches

2012-10-07 Thread Julien Rioux
On 07/10/2012 5:33 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: James pkx1...@gmail.com; lilypond-devel@gnu.org Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [talk] why it'd be great

Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submittingsimple doc patches

2012-10-07 Thread David Kastrup
Julien Rioux jri...@physics.utoronto.ca writes: It should be possible to avoid make clean. There will be a need for make doc-clean when moving or removing an included file. Other cases should be considered as bugs. _Every_ change in the scm or lily or ly directory can potentially affect every

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-07 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/07/2012 05:04 PM, Ian Hulin wrote: The design was deliberately restricted to providing shorthands for the \times commands with 2:3 and 3:2 ratios expressed in the n/m rational parameter, however there seemed to be a feeling that the 5:4 ratio was just as common. (See 6. above). Yes, it

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-07 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 2012-10-07 23:14, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Apologies for coming late with these next remarks, but it's perhaps worth thinking about quite how flexible a \tuplet command could be, in respect of some of the various modern notations out there. Just to give a flavour, besides the standard

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-07 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/07/2012 11:29 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=482 http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=817 I implemented those functions for MusicXML import. Note, however, that lilypond does not automatically use those, you have to manually set them as shown in the

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-07 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 2012-10-07 23:38, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 10/07/2012 11:29 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=482 http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=817 I implemented those functions for MusicXML import. Note, however, that lilypond does not automatically use

Re: [Parser] Lookahead in music function arguments

2012-10-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 8:11 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: [...] In general, not requiring lookahead makes things more versatile. [...] thanks - i think i more or less understand why we prefer not to require lookahead. However, i'm not sure whether you are asking us for any opinion

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-07 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/07/2012 11:52 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: There is, however, no check whether the fraction with the durations makes sense and matches the real tuplet (in most cases, itwill not). Yes, that's what I mean. I'd like to see something where the fractions and durations are all derived from

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-07 Thread David Kastrup
Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net writes: [...] Just to give a flavour, besides the standard |-- n --| (i.e. bracket with number), and the almost-as-standard |- n : m -| (i.e. ratio), you also might

Re: [Parser] Lookahead in music function arguments

2012-10-07 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Hi, On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 8:11 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: [...] In general, not requiring lookahead makes things more versatile. [...] thanks - i think i more or less understand why we prefer not to require lookahead. However,

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-07 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 10/08/2012 12:40 AM, David Kastrup wrote: I diasagree. Whether or not you we provide separate commands actually doing the overrides, the choice between all those variants does not appear to convey musical information individually but just constitutes a different choice of consistent notation

Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

2012-10-07 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 2012-10-08 00:21, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On 10/07/2012 11:52 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: There is, however, no check whether the fraction with the durations makes sense and matches the real tuplet (in most cases, itwill not). Yes, that's what I mean. I'd like to see something

Re: [Parser] Lookahead in music function arguments

2012-10-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:46 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: I am considering removing existing functionality that's not likely to have seen any use so far, but at least is nailed down in regtests (input/regression/optional-args-backup.ly). So I am looking for objections. ok. I think

PATCH: Countdown to 20121009

2012-10-07 Thread Colin Campbell
For 20:00 MDT Tuesday October 9th Documentation Issue 2858 http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2858: Document \shape music function - R6561064 http://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/ Enhancement: Issue 2670 http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2670:

Re: Doc: improve documentation of Bézier curves (2858) (issue 6561064)

2012-10-07 Thread david . nalesnik
LGTM. And thanks again for doing this! -David https://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/ ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [Parser] Lookahead in music function arguments

2012-10-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I lean towards letting numbers in function arguments just evaluate to themselves, never mind units. In particular integers are used quite often in manners where a unit behavior of identifiers would be rather more than less surprising. +1. However, it should be documented, together with the

Re: Doc: improve documentation of Bézier curves (2858) (issue 6561064)

2012-10-07 Thread janek . lilypond
LGTM http://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/diff/10001/Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely File Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely (right): http://codereview.appspot.com/6561064/diff/10001/Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely#newcode3961

i have to reduce LilyPond activity :(

2012-10-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Team, i have bad news: i'll be much less active for several weeks. I'm very sorry to do this, but keeping up with my university work and other arrangements requires this. I hope to do some code reviews, and maybe merge some GSOC stuff, but probably not much else. In particular, i'll be quite

Re: convert-ly (issue 2670) (issue 6610058)

2012-10-07 Thread janek . lilypond
http://codereview.appspot.com/6610058/diff/9001/scripts/convert-ly.py File scripts/convert-ly.py (right): http://codereview.appspot.com/6610058/diff/9001/scripts/convert-ly.py#newcode231 scripts/convert-ly.py:231: ly.progress (_ (uProcessing `%s\'... ) % infile_name, True) is 'u' (here and in

Re: Provide an \undo function for turning overrides and sets into reverts and unsets (issue 6588067)

2012-10-07 Thread janek . lilypond
Please mention in the commit message that \undo will give strange results when used with \key and \clef. http://codereview.appspot.com/6588067/ ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org

Re: convert-ly (issue 2670) (issue 6610058)

2012-10-07 Thread dak
On 2012/10/08 04:58:06, janek wrote: http://codereview.appspot.com/6610058/diff/9001/scripts/convert-ly.py File scripts/convert-ly.py (right): http://codereview.appspot.com/6610058/diff/9001/scripts/convert-ly.py#newcode231 scripts/convert-ly.py:231: ly.progress (_ (uProcessing `%s\'... ) %

Re: convert-ly (issue 2670) (issue 6610058)

2012-10-07 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:05 AM, d...@gnu.org wrote: I don't think we should be documenting the Python language, others do a better job at that. Check out URL:http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#strings ah, ok. thanks! ___