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** [issues:#4792] Documentation - clarification of #t, ##t, "true", etc.**
**Status:** New
**Created:** Fri Mar 11, 2016 01:10 PM UTC by Palmer Ralph
**Last Updated:** Fri Mar 11, 2016 01:10 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
Blöchl Bernhard and Urs Liska wrote :
> Setting myself into the situation of a maybe user wanting to switch
> off the pagenumber I would google "lilypond pagenumber". Google is
> correcting me to page number (in correct English written separately).
>
> The first hit is
> LilyPond Notation Reference: 4.1.6 Other \paper variables
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/other-paper-variables
>
> and there I can find
> \paper variables for page numbering
> and eventually land at
>
> print-page-number
> If set to false, page numbers are not printed.
>
> What to do now as a simple minded user?
> print-page-number = false
> print-page-number = "false"
> etc. .....
>
> The second google hit is
> 3.2.4 Reference to page numbers
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/reference-to-page-numbers
>
> Being familiar with lilypond ##f might find my attention - or not. But
> that link is not really helpful. To get the syntax I would have to
> google again ....
>
> I would recommend to add the options a user has to any item in the
> chapter (maybe in other chapters as well)
> 4.1.6 Other \paper variables
> in the actual example that would mean
> print-page-number
> default is ##true. If set to false (##f), page numbers are not
> printed. Example of use:
> print-page-number = ##f
>
> Is there any adress to send this as a recommendation to the manual
> editors? It is not a bug so I think the bug list is not the correct
> address?
>
I agree that the use of the words "true" and "false" in that context is
suboptimal and will confuse users who are still struggling with "false",
"#f" and "##f".
I'm not completely sure what the best resolution is.
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