Re: significance of whitespace

2009-04-08 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/4/7 Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org: Can be typed pretty rapidly too: hold down right shift with your little finger and fall under the index and middle fingers. ..not everyone uses us keyboard Exactly.  It's already a pain to type `{', `}', and `\' with a German keyboard... ...or a

Re: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-07 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
Can be typed pretty rapidly too: hold down right shift with your little finger and fall under the index and middle fingers. ..not everyone uses us keyboard ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: significance of whitespace

2009-04-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Can be typed pretty rapidly too: hold down right shift with your little finger and fall under the index and middle fingers. ..not everyone uses us keyboard Exactly. It's already a pain to type `{', `}', and `\' with a German keyboard... Werner

significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op zondag 05-04-2009 om 18:13 uur [tijdzone -0300], schreef Han-Wen Nienhuys: as long as I have anything to do with LilyPond, I will veto changes like this that introduce inconsistent whitespace handling in the syntax. What was the problem with this again? It is not so much inconsistent

Re: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke-l...@xs4all.nl wrote: as long as I have anything to do with LilyPond, I will veto changes like this that introduce inconsistent whitespace handling in the syntax. What was the problem with this again?  It is not so much inconsistent

Re: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Marc Hohl
Despite the fact that it would cause massive problems in parsing, a line like c4 4 4 4 is not quite readable for me. As lilypond is THE tool for typesetting beautiful scores, the source file should reflect the beauty. So I should be able to grasp the score at first sight, and in my opinion,

Re: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
I would avoid getting in this discussion before the feature is complete. Just call it \r (using an identifier or keyword), and see how it works in practice. When it is debugged, think of a character. The advantage of not using a letter a-z is that there are no backward compat problems with

Re: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 49da120a.7090...@hohlart.de, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes 1) personally, I would use the %, but this is the comment sign and can't be used. (perhaps this would be even possible, but ... NO!) Oh my gosh, please, NOOO As Han-Wen has said, parsing is important. In another

Re: significance of whitespace

2009-04-06 Thread Werner LEMBERG
3) why not use a x for eXpression, because the sign is meant not only to repeat Qords, but everything reasonable? I don't object. A chord is then played 3x (3 times) more, so use of `x' is really justified. Werner ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Marc Hohl
Anthony W. Youngman schrieb: In message 49da120a.7090...@hohlart.de, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de writes 1) personally, I would use the %, but this is the comment sign and can't be used. (perhaps this would be even possible, but ... NO!) Oh my gosh, please, NOOO As Han-Wen has said,

RE: significance of whitespace [WAS: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius]

2009-04-06 Thread Nick Payne
Why not use an empty pair of braces, which at the moment are just ignored by the parser, to dignify chord repetition: c e g gives c e g c e g c e g 3 gives c e g c e g c e g c e g c e g c gives c e g c - ie ignored as now if preceding element is not a chord Can be typed pretty rapidly too: