Well, learning LilyPond is not the same as solving a hard Sudoku puzzle. That
the manuals only support one conclusion when filling in the blanks does not
mean that everything is fine. Google searches are not really authoritive about
the manual quality, but if several of them fail to turn up anything useful,
this might point towards the information being spread a bit thin. Not least of
all because we use similarly functioning search boxes on our own manual pages.
Of course, if the information can also not be found in the indices, this should
be even more cause for concern. At any rate, "false" contains more letters in
the result than @code{#f} does.
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** [issues:#4792] Documentation - clarification of #t, ##t, "true", etc.**
**Status:** Accepted
**Created:** Fri Mar 11, 2016 01:10 PM UTC by Palmer Ralph
**Last Updated:** Tue Aug 02, 2016 03:12 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
Discussion:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-03/msg00128.html
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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