Re: GOP2-4: add script for batch indenting Scheme files (issue 6450162)

2012-08-20 Thread David Kastrup
has the imprudently named _variable_ indent-tabs-mode which is set to _nil_ () when the form written out by _Emacs_ into the .dir-locals.el file is later interpreted as an alist. Emacs wrote that as a result of using M-x add-dir-local-variable RET. -- David Kastrup

Waltrop travel details

2012-08-21 Thread David Kastrup
the path there and follow it until getting to the second farm house. The wooden horse is also the waymark for people arriving by car. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: Waltrop meeting outline

2012-08-21 Thread David Kastrup
noodles at one point of time. I'll certainly be glad for people pitching in with cooking/shopping, but one has to match the taken efforts to the number of eaters, so really complex food preparation is likely not feasible. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond

Re: GUB dist-check failure

2012-08-22 Thread David Kastrup
: failed make[3]: *** [unlocked-dist-check] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/main/src/gub' -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: GUB dist-check failure

2012-08-22 Thread David Kastrup
why I am queasy about taking last-minute build-system changes into the stable branch. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Waltrop meeting outline

2012-08-23 Thread David Kastrup
. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Problem with snippet 654 after 2.15.28

2012-08-24 Thread David Kastrup
and convenience shortcuts that are not as much part of the snippet than of the writer's comfort space. My own impulse would be on rewriting it in a way depending less on the exact Music structure organisation. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list

Re: Waltrop meeting outline

2012-08-25 Thread David Kastrup
there. See you -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Waltrop meeting outline

2012-08-25 Thread David Kastrup
in the morning (probably getting the answering machine, but that should suffice). -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Brain surgery on the make system

2012-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
an empty .gitignore file in them. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Brain surgery on the make system

2012-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net writes: - Original Message - From: John Mandereau john.mander...@gmail.com To: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org; Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net Cc: Lily devel lilypond-devel@gnu.org Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 4:03 PM Subject: Re: Brain surgery

Re: Run fixcc + astyle2.02.1 (issue 6477062)

2012-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
doesn't fit with fixcc's mandate. At the moment I just want to move forward with the automatic formatting. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: The currently still assembled part of the team in Waltrop

2012-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: The currently still assembled part of the team in Waltrop

2012-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: 2012/8/27 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: Everyone with eyes closed for lack of sleep? I was sitting on a couch discussing MusicXML exports with the guys from Philomenos (sp?) with Janek snoring

Re: Waltrop meeting outline

2012-08-27 Thread David Kastrup
that people would not prefer OFL merely because it fit font usage requirements better. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Gets vertical skylines from grob stencils (issue 5626052)

2012-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
a simple C++ function if they need it is not being fair to our high-level users. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: automated computing tasks for lilypond

2012-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
have options for notifying a dynamic ip dns server. Without a fixed entry point (in this case, a fixed name), outside access is hard to implement. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Stub for ly to xml export using engravers

2012-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
to stream events depends very much on the global context this happens in ($defaultmidi is totally different from $defaultlayout, for example). -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Web glitch

2012-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: Hello, I have noticed that our nice round corners are now square, see attached image taken when using Firefox 14.0.1 in Ubuntu GNU/Linux. At least Apple won't sue us then for its rounded rectangle design patent. -- David Kastrup

Re: automated computing tasks for lilypond

2012-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila paconet@gmail.com writes: 2012/8/28 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: The main beef is getting a dyndns setup where your changing IP address keeps associated with the same outside name. dyndns.org is something you can register on, and most routers have options for notifying

Re: automated computing tasks for lilypond

2012-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
LilyPond with --enable-profiling and run it on a large test score) and graphical(?) presentation of the results. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Assertion failure

2012-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
. URL:http://codereview.appspot.com/6449126/diff/1003/lily/grob-property.cc#newcode254 -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: convert-ly problem

2012-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
-penalty +@funindex blank-after-score-page-penalty which certainly should *not* be included in the upload. Why not? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: The currently still assembled part of the team in Waltrop

2012-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
actually neighed. But he has become mute again soon afterwards. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: convert-ly problem

2012-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
aren't, but apparently somebody wrote the rule but did not bother to run update-with-convert-ly and committing the result before making a release. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: convert-ly problem

2012-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: Am 28.08.2012 20:52, schrieb David Kastrup: Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes: After searching a bit more, git grep blank-page-force shows several hits, but in 2.17.x, this should read blank-page-penalty, so I assume when master gets updated

Re: The currently still assembled part of the team in Waltrop

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
, Mike, John, Janek, Graham on top of Winni, and Conny, the principal, teacher, horse trainer and farm hand of the riding school. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Bug in guile?

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
ae7d8fe61e91281e447a9e8c354114387284e14a0b4f3af8f392e1c9a943bd837ffb863f0602af 7.45493) Uh, you are aware _how_ one writes hexadecimal constants in Scheme? They start with #x. I am surprised you should get an error only on the last line. The lack of an error might be worth investigating _if_ it is reproducible. -- David Kastrup

Re: Bug in guile?

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: m...@mikesolomon.org m...@mikesolomon.org writes: Hey all, Could someone well-versed in guile try running primitive-load-path on the attached file with and without the last line commented. Without the last line commented, on my machine, I get: guile

Re: GUB upload error

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
memberships are at the moment. What you can see in your system settings is just the starting membership for new sessions/logins. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: GUB upload error

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
that, which it doesn't. Hmm, are you sure you rebooted? Logging in again should be sufficient. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: applying scheme indentation

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
his current branch to some dev/* branch so that one can make a rough estimate what the costs of various ways of integration would turn out to be? fixscm.sh is basically an esthetic fix. We should do it when we are reasonably sure of no major resulting hassles. -- David Kastrup

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
as a service. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:15 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: At the Waltrop meeting, Janek proposed a number of interesting but potentially disruptive changes to the lilypond syntax

Re: Gub upload failure

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
downloads/lilypond/git to the main repository. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Gub upload failure

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: - Original Message - From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org To: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:21 PM Subject: Re: Gub upload failure Phil Holmes em...@philholmes.net writes: OK - so it looks like I've now rsynched

Re: 2.17.1

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
, there are about 9 commits marked Fixed_2_17_1 which have to be changed to Fixed_2_17_2 since they missed the proper time to actually make it into 2.17.1. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org

Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2790 in lilypond: Patch: bar-line interface part 2/2

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
-optimising (which does not make a whole lot of sense) and run with -ddebug-gc. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: 2.17.1 regtests

2012-08-29 Thread David Kastrup
strategy reducing this effect which is _far_ too pronounced to produce readable scores. And perhaps double-check that staff-staff-spacing is actually doing its part in keeping the skylines at a distance. I somewhat doubt it. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond

Re: 2.17.1 regtests

2012-08-30 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:44 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: m...@mikesolomon.org m...@mikesolomon.org writes: The regtest that worries me most is les-nereides.ly. There is a comment starting on line 827 of axis-group-engraver.cc from

Re: Issue 2793 in lilypond: Fret diagrams - end lines too thin

2012-08-30 Thread David Kastrup
reason, I don't even see this comment #3 on the web site. Did you delete it already? At any rate, I had not admitted the problematic change into 2.16.0, so while we certainly do need 2.16.1 in due time, it is not because of this issue. -- David Kastrup

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-08-30 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:15 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: For example, one idea was to use postfix notation for (almost) everything. David pointed out that this would wreck havok on music functions, and I had to admit that I have no clue

Re: Patchy report

2012-08-30 Thread David Kastrup
/compile_lilypond_test/__init_ [...] Grenouille currently seems to be wrong too often to be useful. Do you have a way of checking the integrity of its RAM? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org

Re: Patchy report

2012-08-31 Thread David Kastrup
John Mandereau john.mander...@gmail.com writes: Il giorno ven, 31/08/2012 alle 00.38 +0200, David Kastrup ha scritto: grenoui...@lilynet.net writes: 21:58:01 (UTC) Begin LilyPond compile, previous commit at e15e0d22810063b79da891bbf472ecc39d09c02c 21:58:15 From git.savannah.gnu.org

Re: MusicXML and GuileV2

2012-08-31 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:04 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: This would also seem to form an excellent starting point for having LilyPond interpret MusicXML directly, bypassing converters as well as the ly parser. While this would not offer

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-08-31 Thread David Kastrup
were different enough to actually require a per-case definition rather than being derivable from the post-event meaning). -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-08-31 Thread David Kastrup
things if we don't have a reliable definition of what things even is. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-08-31 Thread David Kastrup
, Lua... -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-08-31 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:21 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Is there a complete proposal of what is on the drawing board? Barring that, is there a list of (perceived) problems in the current syntax/parser? The possible values for music

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:21 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Is there a complete proposal of what is on the drawing board? Barring that, is there a list of (perceived) problems in the current syntax/parser

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org writes: David Kastrup writes: Ah, I was unclear. Right. LilyPond stands out /together/ with Perl in unreadability; these are the only two languages I know that can have functions look like statements. Hm? Scheme, C, C++, awk, Lua... C

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
sense and what not. 172 ~ 188 is an abomination anyway. It would be reasonably straightforward to accept a pair here, like #(172 . 188) or 172/188 which is equivalent. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 01:27:23PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: 172 ~ 188 is an abomination anyway. It would be reasonably straightforward to accept a pair here, like #(172 . 188) or 172/188 which is equivalent. Straightforward from

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
and consistent. With composers like Schönberg, you'll have a hard time making the LilyPond score look scarier than the output. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
in the foot. If you decide to reinvent the syntax, you are only moving about the compromise, closing off one nest of rats in exchange for opening a can of worms. Yup. For a single command, \tempo overstresses the parser's hospitality in my opinion. -- David Kastrup

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 8:27 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: It is reasonably easy to state this will have to go. However, I have not so far attempted a replacement since I am still fuzzy on assignments. Basically I want to have

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:37 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: As one example for an analogous use of optional arguments, consider \tweak Accidental #'color #red cis4 \tweak has always been a music function. Being able to use a syntax fairly

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
to a degree that the only reliable LilyPond parser has been LilyPond itself. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 12:04 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Vectors don't make sense unless you give a mechanism to map/iterate over them, ie something along the lines of (make-parallel-music (vector-list (map (lambda (x) (add-new-context

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
. If they did not serve complementary purposes, we would not need both. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
. Frankly, the current syntax discussions are leading nowhere. Brainstorming is fine, but pretty useless if there is no target or topic other than let's make things different. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 12:04 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: You can also argue that people that know what a duration is, and how to use it will be better served by writing Scheme directly. Because a duration is complex enough in Scheme

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:18:17PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: Continuing to brainstorm on the problem of it not being obvious to which note a particular \command refers to, what if we used

Re: slides-in-tablature.ly snippets: string numbers of hided notes are visible

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
?) #{ \tweak #'stencil ##f $e #}) { c'\4 c'\n\4 } -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-01 Thread David Kastrup
: c2 d\p prefix: c2 \parenthesize { d } Uh, oh, please forget this. It would be great if it could be that simple :-/ Actually, why not using this for music functions? I.e. \parenthesize { d } and d-\parenthesize. d-\parenthesize-\p is supposed to do what then? -- David Kastrup

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
to be doing a favor with that? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org writes: David Kastrup writes: Using LilyPond for reading LilyPond files (as opposed to parsers written in Python) has the advantage of being rather thorough, and the disadvantage to be tied into a single version (not all that helpful if you want to write

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org writes: David Kastrup writes: Maybe the time has finally come to drop convert-ly and implement and fully supported conversions using LilyPond on music stream level. You still need a parser of the appropriate version at the front end. We have perfectly

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org writes: David Kastrup writes: What issues were raised? Janek and Graham raised the `what is a music function / let's make everything postfix' issue. That's rather vague as an issue description. Sort of the What is a preposition / let's make everything

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net writes: Janek Warchoł janek.lilypond at gmail.com writes: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:41 PM, David Kastrup dak at gnu.org wrote: Graham Percival graham at percival-music.ca writes: So far I don't feel that the discussion has been very fruitful

Re: [GLISS] verbifying music functions

2012-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
= ... to be used (\bookOutputName itself then referencing it). It just does not make all that much sense without a few other changes in music functions. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
on the parser, and frustration for those who feel that their proposals are not taken seriously by those in power, namely actually working with and on the parser code. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https

Re: gerrit - does it allow writing commits using a web interface?

2012-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
. It is because few people are comfortable poking around in the dark. And for good reason. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org wrote: David Kastrup writes: Maybe the time has finally come to drop convert-ly and implement and fully supported conversions using LilyPond on music stream level. You still need

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
that their opening locks down the possibilities of future changes again. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Uncommented code in LilyPond

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
reasonable consideration is bad, because I am far enough to the right of the bell curve on understanding computers and programs that code that is beyond me is for all reasonable purposes beyond meaningful maintenance, possibly even by its own author but most certainly by an average programmer. -- David

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
to save keystrokes, and they bemoan the demise of Mutopia, and the rise of MusicXML over LilyPond as a music presentation format. Nobody wants to see the connections. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org writes: David Kastrup writes: Users like to save keystrokes, and they bemoan the demise of Mutopia, and the rise of MusicXML over LilyPond as a music presentation format. Nobody wants to see the connections. I'm glad you do. It's not that it helps much

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
a look at the parser... Looks like it would be simple to do, and likely one should also include \~ (PesOrFlexaEvent). I don't know the respective input modes and terminology: will there always be a note to attach all those to? -- David Kastrup

Re: Uncommented code in LilyPond

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
and uncommented complexity at every corner. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
with renewed vigor into the next week of writing up a proposal. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: how to make decisions?

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
where this takes development. Yes, this requires trust, but policies can't replace that trust for all that they are worth. They are more a reminder for everybody where we want to be heading, and how we think we may arrive there. -- David Kastrup

Re: how to make decisions?

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
on XYZ, now get lost while the real developers talk about ABC. And I want to avoid creating organizational structures that will cause exactly that impression if I am trying to do serious work according to the best of my conscience. -- David Kastrup

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:03 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 02:20:43AM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: To me, a Grand Input Syntax fixing of LilyPond, would amount

[GLISS] Unifying \chordmode and \notemode

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
making the decision of whether one wants to tackle it. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: Uncommented code in LilyPond

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:33 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Frightening rather. I don't spend enough time defending LilyPond against awful patches as it is. [...] It is easy to make it easier to meddle with LilyPond code. The low number

Re: how to make decisions?

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
should suspect otherwise. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
level, you get the same underlying ambiguity. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:09 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Well, the music function work has removed a lot of pressure of the I want my favorite construct xxx in the grammar kind since there are quite a number of things people can put

Re: Uncommented code in LilyPond

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
in it. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [GLISS] Unifying \chordmode and \notemode

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:46 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: I actually remembered one thing that remains worth doing: integrating \chordmode into \notemode. This sounds like a nice project. I am still worried by the backward compat breakage

Re: [GLISS] Unifying \chordmode and \notemode

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:46 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: I actually remembered one thing that remains worth doing: integrating \chordmode into \notemode. This sounds like a nice project. I am still

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 05:17:53PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: With things like c-\parenthesize-\p no hard and fast syntax rule will resolve the ambiguity caused by your let's stick - before things applying to the previous element proposal

Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
discussions). Well, one simple consequence would be that one can't define music functions in a document (their definition is interpretation, their use is parsing). The use of Scheme would be quite constrained, as reading it is parsing, evaluating it interpretation. -- David Kastrup

Re: [GLISS] Unifying \chordmode and \notemode

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
. Would you use Bes or BES? If the former, how would you write the equivalent of bes:dim ? -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: [GLISS] Unifying \chordmode and \notemode

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:46 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: I actually remembered one thing that remains worth doing: integrating \chordmode into \notemode. Why would it make sense to have a unified mode? Being able to combine single

Re: [GLISS] verbifying music functions

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
Keith OHara k-ohara5...@oco.net writes: David Kastrup dak at gnu.org writes: Keith OHara k-ohara5a5a at oco.net writes: Graham Percival graham at percival-music.ca writes: Let's have a look at verbifying music functions. [and special-cases that look just like music functions

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
-with-delay-only-proper-chords-in-original-relative-octave-and-strip-some-configurable-information type command like q would facilitate better storage, which is what your exactly the opposite would imply. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
the wanted behaviour: c-\parenthesize-| I would like to have this become equivalent to c\parenthesize-| but it still requires some work to allow LilyPond to _first_ call a music function, _then_ decide whether the result is a post-event to be attached to the previous note. -- David Kastrup

Re: [GLISS] differentiating pre/post/neutral commands

2012-09-03 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com writes: That said, now some thoughts ontopic: In most cases I'm quite fine with the current lily-syntax concerning the pre/post-commands. But there are cases I'd wish to be more consequent. Example: c-1\2

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